Just about everything Donald Trump says—when he’s not adoring himself or belittling others—is about how the once-great American nation has been humbled by the rest of the world. To hear him tell it, the United States is a 99-pound weakling who repeatedly has had sand kicked in his face by everyone. “We don’t win anymore,” he says. “We don’t win with trade. We don’t win with the military. We don’t win.”
But there’s a problem, writes Sheldon Richman. America is no 99-pound weakling. It’s more like a 900-pound gorilla that won’t leave the rest of the world alone. It’s not the abused—it is the abuser.
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