Trump 2020 Is No Joke written by Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

President Trump is holding the first fundraiser of his 2020 re-election campaign later this month at the Trump International Hotel near the White House.

That is now a normal sort of sentence. It may be true or it may not (in fact it is). There’s no enormity about it. Already, on the 154th day of this presidency, Americans are suffering from incredulity fatigue. Oh, we just sold $12 billion of fighter jets to Qatar a few days after Trump accused Doha of being a major funder of terrorism — that kind of thing.

President Donald Trump-by Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

President Donald Trump. Get used to it. The world as we knew it is no more.

To give Trump credit, he had a single formidable intuition: That American anger and uncertainty in the face of the inexorable march of globalization and technology had reached such a pitch that voters were ready for disruption at any cost.

Enough of elites; enough of experts; enough of the status quo;

Still Feeling the Bern by Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

So Donald Trump has said the following in Florida: “I’m honored to have the greatest temperament that anyone’s ever had.”

Hahaha.

We, in turn, feel honored to have been exposed these past 16 months to a temperament so expressive of the Platonic virtues: wisdom, courage, moderation and justice.

Anti-Semitic Anti-Zionism written by Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

LONDON — The hard left meeting the hard right is an old political story, as Hitler understood in calling his party the National Socialists. So in these days of turbulence it’s no surprise that the leftist supporters of Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn should find common cause with the rightist backers of Donald Trump.

They like Vladimir Putin’s Russia even as he flattens Aleppo; they are anti-globalism; they are anti-establishment; they