Ben Sasse actually said...

"hopefully the President is just blowing off steam again but if he's even half serious, this is nuts."

"I believe that China took advantage of the fact that we're not in TPP to try to drive a wedge between us and our TPP partners."

"nations are partly going to be forced to choose between a rules-based international order and a Chinese system that is more interested in lifting up China with more vassal state supplicant near neighb..."

"I think that, you know, our allies are smart enough to do that, and they'll make the decisions that benefit them, and us, in terms of our alliances."