Planning for the Post-Trump Wreckage

When the president eventually exits the White House, the rest of us will quickly have to make sense of the world he's left behind.

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Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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BY STEPHEN M. WALT

One of the many unfortunate consequences of U.S. President Donald Trump’s cavalier, corrupt, and capricious handling of foreign policy is that it discourages farsighted thinking about the global agenda. Even worse, it is gradually undermining the institutional capacity the United States will need to deal with that agenda. To a first approximation, the people who are most alarmed by his actions (and I include myself among them) are spending a lot of their time circling the wagons and trying to minimize the damage that he and his minions do while in office. They are like parents trying frantically to corral a rambunctious toddler (hat tip to Dan Drezner) who is running amok through a china shop: All the attention is on saving as much of the crockery as possible, and nobody has any time to think about what they’ll do once the kid has finished smashing things.

It’s understandable that people are trapped in a reactive mode, because Trump’s genius is his ability to make nearly everything all about him and to focus attention on whatever his latest outrageous antic is. What other president could or would make himself the center of attentionwhen a prominent senator died or express his disagreement with an important allied leader by tossing candy at her? Trump may be terrible at running the government, but his ability to command attention through outrageous behavior makes Madonna look like an amateur.

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4 COMMENTS

  1. Seeing as how the NWO agenda is for world-wide chaos, wherein they pick up the pieces afterward, I see that Trump is working out quite well actually. He is not stopping the globalist agenda, he is enabling it. The continued squawking about ‘the democrats’ (as if they are any different than repugs, TPers) is continued us/them mantra. Trump IS the bull in the china closet, because that is exactly what they want. When all international conventions are destroyed, whether they are beneficial or not, sets the stage for another ‘saviour’. Who will that be? My money is on the really sick POS, Pence. And he ain’t no ‘democrat’. He may not even be human.

  2. JADEZ, prove me wrong dont lump me with the MSM “just like the rest who parrot and remain
    ignorant fools”. Get over it he won. This probably set the Globalist agenda back 20 years maybe
    more, bad candidate.

  3. Can not argue about what you say about our Presidents lack of refinement, still beats Hillery any day.
    The people who complain the most are the Globalist with their one world government. All the Russia
    collusion bs is not working, truth is hard to keep buried. The info just keeps coming in email after
    email and there are those sophomoric Democrats and all their so obvious obstruction of everything.
    The Globalist’ inner governmental forces have shot the movement in the foot,never write anything
    down, da e-mail. These people are running our gov?

    • lets stop once and for all..about how he “still beats hillary”,,,crap….its all make believe because she is not in power…and unless you can predict the lotto for me….you are useless….just like the rest who parrot and remain ignorant fools….

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