Not for the first time, many people – including some leading Republicans – are asking themselves: “Who can save us from Donald Trump?”
A man who has lived his life disregarding conventions, the law, even the constitution of the United States, the better to aggregate wealth and power, has now set himself against the rest of the world. With his unprovoked and irrational trade war – one that now finds him playing chicken with President Xi of China – the gangster-in-chief has gone global.