He parades as a strongman, but in fact he’s weak, weak, weak. In the face of America’s adversaries dementia don is, as he might put it, a patsy, a sucker, a pushover. He folds like a pack of cards. He’s a human doormat. A loser.
Just consider the gifts he has handed Vladimir Putin this week. He has brought Russia in from the diplomatic cold after three years of ostracism following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, whose anniversary has just passed.
To be clear, presidential weakness is not the gravest sin here. More serious is the capitulation to a dictator, the acquiescence in an invasion and the lasting precedent it sets, the abandonment of an ally fighting for its life and an apparent decision to break apart an alliance that has delivered relative peace and prosperity to the west, including the US, for eight decades.
His capitulation to Putin over Ukraine reveals a pattern. He’s the patsy: giving everything away, getting little in return…