Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. “I’m sure she will make it,” Mr. Bannon avers. What stands out most in Mr. Trump’s speech is not its oft-quoted illiberalism but its stark pessimism about the future of the West. What he promised his listeners was not the West’s “victory” but that the West shall never be broken. America and Europe might find themselves in the position of the man who, so panicked by death, decides to commit suicide.

Source: New York Times July 11, 2017 08:00 UTC