Trump always passes for a Robin Hood ... In fact, he is precisely the opposite: a "reverse Robin Hood," who steals from the poor and the middle class to give to the rich.
So, should the Trump administration use its military superiority to make Kim Jong Un yield, as the U.S. president has already suggested? Short answer: That would be dangerous.
The Washington Post suggests that Trump's behavior is “worthy of a banana republic.” The Wall Street Journal compares President Trump to Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Filipino autocrat Rodrigo Duterte.
Deeply altering the international order, as it seems Donald Trump wants to do, is a dangerous whim, which is based upon fundamentally erroneous presumptions.
It will be especially intriguing to see how Americans react to the discovery that protectionism, even supposing it creates a surplus of jobs, will by other means make their lives more expensive than ever.