“Trump has spent a year and a half trying to burn that world down, and his own country hasn’t been able to stop him. The courts haven’t. Congress hasn’t. Forty trillion dollars in debt hasn’t. So maybe the thing that finally does it is a 40-million-person country with a two-war reputation for not stopping, quietly turning the American economy into a lesson about what a friend costs once you’ve made him an enemy. Maybe it takes the North freezing him out for Americans to remember what he’s cost them. We’ll take that job. We’ve taken worse ones for you.
You’re welcome, in advance.”