It’s ironic that some of America’s worst presidents in terms of domestic leadership have succeeded spectacularly on the world stage.

Both before and after his disastrous presidency, Herbert Hoover was a leading architect of European reconstruction following both world wars. Richard Nixon was indeed a crook, but he also broke through decades of distrust to open relations with communist China. Jimmy Carter, beset by inflation at home and general haplessness abroad during his single term, nonetheless managed to midwife a landmark Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement that endures today.

To this mixed-bag lineup of presidential legacies, add Donald Trump’s brokering last week of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. It doesn’t alleviate or excuse Trump’s continuing assault upon the U.S. Constitut

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