Betting on Harris, Biden and the Democratic leadership decided that Trump would be easier to beat from the center than from the left.
It is not difficult to find similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and the election phraseology of the ruling party in our own country and right-wing populist politicians around the world.
A new Truman doctrine for liberal democracies is perhaps needed now, one that is relevant to our times and our world.
Past trauma means we worry about Russia reclaiming its Cold War sphere of influence and that the West will again abandon us.