I think we'll see an ACA-like effect with NAFTA: once the threat of it being taken away forces people to actually look at the content of it, it will rise in popularity and become much more politically difficult to change.
While there are probably a lot of people in the white house who want to see NAFTA renegotiated, but a bunch of them are corporate globalists who want to see markets opened up for US businesses, and a bunch are isolationist protectionists who want to see the US international trade shut down.
It will require a delicate approach by Canada, though. They need to be active in making sure that the message about how much this is going to hurt the US's own interests gets out there, but they need to be careful about how they do so... this is a bunch of voters who take great offense to anyone telling them what is in their own best interests, even when it's true.
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