What no commentaries?    Samuelson is a well respected conservative with an emphasis on economics.   It's impossible not to see how both Trump and Clinton extracted what they didn't like in the trade negotiations and failed to mentioning the benefits for the United States is clear terms.  All for partisan purposes (see letter on Washington's comments about partisanship in todays paper)

Its just stupid to believe that any American negotiating team would be not be equipped to get concessions from other members.    Nothings  perfect for any one side in a well designed agreement.    Trump sold fear, lies, cultural bias and vanity.   Now the chance to negotiate is gone unless Trump thinks he can buy his way through the same Europe that for the most part thinks he's an oaf.

This is a tragic consequence of electing a leader who was never prepared for the job at hand.