The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously

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14. I remind old timers that in TSF's first term there were credible and somewhat credible theories that TSF was

trying for a new global order which involved the US, Russia, China, Middle Eastern states including Israel, and IIRC North Korea.

Not hard to imagine that elements of this survive today...authoritarians agreeing to divide up the world using an infinitely greedy, limited, narcissist for the final push. His neediness to be close to authoritarians surely survives. Certainly these are 'not good men'. But that may not be the end of the story. Questions of 'why' remain and are important.

I'm aware these theories and the writer who championed them is controversial even on DU...not intending to re-litigate him. Just reminding that we can't ignore the forest for the trees.