Trump Could Cost the Country Its Most Important Weapon
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DALIBOR ROHAC: Trump Could Cost the Country Its Most Important Weapon
ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES of international politics was of a speech by President George H.W. Bush on Wenceslas Square in Prague in November 1990, on the first anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that ended more than forty years of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Bush spoke of “a new world of freedom born amid shouts of joy; born full of hope, barreling with confidence toward a new century; a new world born of a revolution that linked this square with others—Gdansk, Budapest, Berlin—a revolution that joined together people fueled by courage and by humanity's essential quest for freedom.”
My 7-year-old self did not appreciate his finer points, but the central message was clear: The United States was not only a great power but also a good, decent, and trustworthy one. For all of America’s flaws and hypocrisies, its virtues were central to the success of the post-war order that the United States built and to the unparalleled global power it has exercised since.
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Sarah Longwell previews… the next four years.
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