In the unlikely case that anyone needs to be told, President Trump is an unusual sort of political figure who picks what he wants from an a la carte menu and likes to cross and confuse party lines. He has come around to the social conservatives’ views on abortion, but they are less pleased with his views on gay issues. Economically, he wants to cut taxes and/or regulations but otherwise seems to be a big spender who wants entitlements left as they are.

Nowhere is Trump’s ad hoc approach more marked than in foreign relations, where his vows to be ultra tough against the Islamic State and other forms of Islamic-based terror don’t mix all that well with his appeasement of our more traditional enemies. As for American exceptionalism, moral or otherwise, he agrees with Obama that it doesn’t exist, that we don’t have a right to get on moral high horses, as opposed to the concepts of Reagan and Kennedy, who went on about cities on hills. But in regard to the last, a resistance is forming that gives us some hope in a different direction: Is there a chance that anti-Trump fever in Democrats can revive the old liberal hawks?