3. A nation that elects a Trump once could easily elect a similar figure again in the future. That becomes priced into national reputation.
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4. For the Germans, South Koreans, Japanese etc. this is no joke: they've stake their lives on having stable USA foreign policy.
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5. This is the choice many Asian countries will face. In Europe it'll be "Germany, USA or Russia?"
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Vincent Bevins
6. The choice in Asia:https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/868879378607874048 …
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7. I'm open to argument that the decline of America as a global hegemon is a good thing. Ideally should've been done more orderly fashion
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There is no "ideally" in international relations.
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Yes--disorderly decline is the way of things, and Trump may merely have spectacularized it (and possibly sped it up)
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That's certainly my view, but then I think Trump is much less of an outlier in US political history than is commonly believed
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There are elements of Trump that could be seen in Nixon, Reagan & G.W. Bush. But Trump's clowning & instability is something new.
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In any case, I wasn't speaking only of post-1945 US history, but rather of the Harding, Coolidge, Hoover era.
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Trump definitely a throwback to that tradition -- but that foreign policy wrecked havoc on the world so not very reassuring!
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Do elaborate.
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