I’ve said before there’s a seductive idea that some more competent version of American hegemony was once in effect and is desirable to return to.
Without meaning to, what Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay book The Empty Throne: America’s Abdication of Global Leadership seems to persuasively advocate for is how bad of an idea it is for the United States to have a throne at all when the person in it is as likely as not to wield that leadership destructively.
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