President Trump’s usual playbook — make demands, threaten Armageddon, force capitulation — is not working. Canada said yesterday that it would impose tariffs as high as 50 percent on hundreds of American products, after the United States imposed its own levies on Canadian goods. The prime minister walked away from trade talks last week, and The Times chronicled how Canadians had his back. “We’re standing our ground not to be bullied on the world stage and pushed around,” a shop owner in Manitoba told our reporter.

In Washington, congressional Republicans who have usually deferred to Trump blasted him for raising imports of ground beef. It may bring the price of a burger down before the midterm elections. But legislators warn it would be at the expense of American ranchers, and that’s intolerable. “Americans want U.S. beef on the table — not foreign imports,” Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming said in a statement.

Peter Baker, who covers the Trump presidency, continues the list of defiance: None of which means Trump should be underestimated, Peter warns. His polls may be low, and the influence of his political endorsements may have slipped, but Trump’s still powerful. The Supreme Court’s generally kind to him.

He was able to get Todd Blanche confirmed as attorney general. Darline Graham is the Republican nominee for Senate in South Carolina. He posts on social media, and markets move.

Still, the resistance is real. “Last spring, I warned that America is trying to break us so they can own us, and I promised that ‘That will never, ever happen,’” Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said on Saturday, after abandoning the trade talks. “We are keeping that promise.”.