During the Cold War, it was a type of folk wisdom, if not a fairy tale, that in America, “politics stopped at the water’s edge.” This meant that Democrats and Republicans put partisanship aside, presenting a unified front in service to the country’s “national interests” abroad.

In the Age of Trump, that wisdom has been largely — if not entirely — discarded.

Donald Trump believes in himself, in Trumpism and MAGA. He does not believe in American exceptionalism, the international rules-based order and America’s traditional alliances and friends. Trump is the state, and America’s national interests are the same as his own.

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 ha

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