Jacob Sullum: Contra Trump, Trade Deficits are Not a National Emergency

I usually don't blame Trump for trying...but this argument just seems dumb.

I still don't quite buy the second part of Sullum's argument--that tariffs won't help...but I don't care that much about that point, and am not qualified to speak on it.

Of course there are probably complexities about the first point that I don't understand either...so I guess I really ought to be saying, at most, that the claim that it's a national emergency is prima facie dumb...

Also: the more often Trump wildly swings for the fences, the less inclined to support him I become. Occasionally is ok...too many times seems bad. But what do I know?