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Hanging Over the World, a Second Trump Term
America’s foes and friends are preparing for the potential return of a chaotic US foreign policy driven by instincts and complexes rather than interests and principles.
What if he comes back?
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The same question that hangs over American democracy also casts a shadow over all of world politics: What if Donald Trump walks back into the White House in 2025?
He may or may not. But if he does, he’ll feel unshackled from even the few fetters that restrained him in his first term, and will try to bring all branches of federal government under his personal control in order to go after his domestic enemies.