A storm is gathering, and there is every reason to believe that 2018 will be the most consequential political year of our lives. World leaders continue to watch dumbstruck as the United States retreats from organizations that were created following the allies’ victory over Hitler. Those same alliances that Trump now undermines with reckless tweets and discarded treaties carried the United States to victory in the Cold War. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)“The Gathering Storm” is on my holiday reading list because of Republican strategist Steve Schmidt’s insistence to me that Churchill’s ominous warnings to future generations will be more relevant to 2018 than at any time since it was written in the years after World War II. The storm is gathering.

Source: Washington Post December 29, 2017 00:45 UTC