So I clicked over to New York Magazine to see if/when Sullivan was going to start writing for them (I’ve always enjoyed his writing, even if I didn’t agree with it). And I saw this article/post about Trump’s actual plan to make Mexico pay for the wall:

On Tuesday, Trump revealed his plan to extort $5 billion to $10 billion from our ally to the south: use an anti-terrorism provision in the Patriot Act to freeze all money transfers from the United States to Mexico, until the ransom is paid. In other words, the Trump administration would intercept all the money that Mexican immigrants send home to their dependent family members and wait for the suffering of women and children to force Mexico’s hand.

That seems like the sort of thing that would start a trade war on a good day, and a hot war on a bad one.