Ben Rhodes
After Donald Trump’s first election, it was easy for Democrats to cast him as an aberration from the norms and practices that had broadly oriented American foreign policy for decades. But Joe Biden’s presidency now feels like an elegiac effort to restore U.S. leadership of a rules-based international order. Trump’s second term, meanwhile, is poised to usher in a full embrace of the zero-sum transactionalism that order was created to supersede. Democrats must adjust to this new reality: the old United States is not coming back, and the rest of the world does not expect it
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