America's saving democracy in two world wars is not at issue. Those European countries have been loyal allies ever since. Trump has managed to alienate them. Yes, they should have been paying more for defense. But before making them hate us, he might have tried persuasion. He thinks he can compel them to act in his interests. His greatest failure is the hatred and division he has sown. The notion that any means is justified by the end is the source of his failure. It is utterly antithetical to basic Christian teaching and central to the methodology of every dictatorship, whether of the left or the right.

Bill Ferguson