Democracy Isn’t Dead … Yet
It’ll take more than Trump to destroy America’s foreign alliances, but damage has been done. Plus, Jonathan Bernstein’s morning links.
This is no time to panic.
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Political scientist Elizabeth Saunders reminds us that even if the U.S.-North Korea meeting goes badly, the outcome probably won't be war. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump's fiasco at the G-7 meeting doesn't seem likely to send the U.S. economy — let alone the world economy — tumbling into a new depression.
One reaction to that will be that, well, Trump may seem to be doing a terrible job at presidenting, but it's all an illusion; things are actually going really well. I've seen others hasten to point out that George W. Bush (or other presidents they dislike) had far more tangible policy failures than Trump.