Donald Trump doesn’t have a cold; he’s the tipping point in an epidemic

With his love of Putin, trolling of NATO, tactical support of China’s ascendancy, and daily degradation of American soft power, Trump is not a political black swan. His presidency is a turning point in a dangerous narrative.

U.S. President Donald Trump is not in an anomaly, writes Lisa Van Dusen. The prime ministers of Israel, Italy, and Hungary, Benjamin Netanyahu, Giuseppe Conte, and Viktor Orbán, are all part of a larger effort to harden borders and skirt the truth.The Hill Times file photograph and photographs courtesy of the Italian president’s office, Gage Skidmore, and European People’s Party

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

July 11, 2018

In the besieged practice of journalism, there is sometimes a moment when a narrative hits a Gladwellian tipping point beyond which what had been reported as a series of random or discrete events flags the full scope of a larger phenomenon: an epidemic, a web of corruption, an ethnic cleansing campai...

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