What if China is let into CPTPP? Could members, including Mexico + Canada, become disgruntled enough with US attitude to allow this?

Hmm. Must have been laughing too much to spot your typos...

Not the worst idea, IMHO. Nowhere near as bad as Trump's loony idea/threat to pull out of the WTO.

Not sure – but I appreciate the optimism!

Yes - he strikes me the same way (seriously), but... it is a bit hard to reconcile with his being BFF with King Charles.

But he tells his Wall St buddies that Trump really just intends to impose narrow, targeted tariffs for **leverage**, not the wide, huge tariffs he's promised. Perhaps Bessent is in for one of those rude awakenings?

It's more interesting than that. It appears he's out and, presumably, doesn't hate other gays since he has a husband.

Agree... but would still be nice to see more actually conservative, small-L libertarian, Never Trump types on here, though. Just IMHO (+ I may be too new here to have found them).