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U.S. President Donald Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Instead, it went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

If there is one phrase from the American lexicon that Trump insiders and MAGA activists reviled – one impulse that they were determined to eliminate from the country’s politics – it was that the United States was “the indispensable nation.”

Those three words were introduced into American foreign policy and the country’s civic conversation by then-secretary of state Madeleine Albright in a 1998 interview on the NBC Today show.

To the Trump ascendancy, that locution was discredited and then demonized. It meant a panoply of evils such as “forever wars,” nation-building, constant involvement in overseas controversies – the very elemen

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