>Trump discovers rejection on the world stage — because of his 'weak mind': analysis
>Senior writer Chauncey DeVega says Trump rules supreme in the U.S. thanks to the Republican party’s success in building a Soviet-style one-party government in both Congress and the U.S. courts. But the leaders of single-party systems achieve prominence through machinery, not intelligence — and international governments are noting the drop in White House standards.
>“With the power he has managed to grab from a compliant Supreme Court and a Republican Congress, against an ineffective Democratic opposition and cowed media, Trump now has nearly all the tools to impose personalist rule over all areas of American life. But internationally, he has to face other leaders who, with strong wills, personalities and national interests of their own, will not capitulate so easily,” writes DeVega.
>Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul tells DeVega that Trump is “weakening American military alliances, and gutting the international economic institutions, including … the World Trade Organization, that used to facilitate trade and investment between capitalist economies in the Cold War.”
>The Lincoln Project chief of staff Ryan Wiggins says the U.S. would not be the first empire brought down by an ignoramus.
>“Trump has a child’s understanding of the world and is driven by ego and whatever impulses come into his weak mind,” Wiggins told Salon. “It’s causing the U.S. economy to burn as he pursues trade and economic policies that are completely unworkable and destroys U.S. leadership on the global stage. And he’s doing a lot of it to distract from the Epstein files.”
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