As Americans struggle to grasp President Donald Trump’s reversal of American foreign policy, which abruptly overturned decades of cooperation with other democracies to contain authoritarian aggression, many observers have faltered. Describing what Trump has done strains the usual vocabulary of analysts, who are still not fully prepared to confront this administration’s insidious purposes. Yet there is a word familiar from Trump’s first term that now defines precisely what he and Russian President Vladimir Putin are […]

One Word Describes What Trump Has Done
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