Playing Defense

Published August 4, 2017 12:00pm ET



Two days after the 2016 election, we had this to say about Donald Trump’s stunning victory:

“We opposed him early and often, and we didn’t think he’d win. We lamented his ignorance, criticized his crudity, and catalogued his untruthfulness. We were troubled by his foreign policy noninterventionism, his antitrade demagoguery, by his lack of discipline and judgment, and also by the likelihood that he would disappoint far too many of his enthusiastic followers, especially those whose policy views we shared.

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