"By using his public office for personal gain, Trump has affirmed Putin’s long-held conviction—shared by autocrats the world over—that Americans are just as venal and self-absorbed as they are, just more hypocritical about it."
"For dictators, Trump is the gift that keeps on giving, a non-stop advertisement for Western self-dealing."
"Trump’s scorched-earth tactics, casual relationship with truth, and contempt for career public service bear more than a passing resemblance to the playbook that [Roy] Cohn wrote for [Joe] McCarthy [in the 1950s]."
In a few words, under Trump, America's foreign policy has come to resemble what one might expect from a Third World Banana Republic. Read about the precipitous decline of America's place in the foreign policy sun by clicking here.
- Mark
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