His arrival and Merkel's slow shuffle to political oblivion are not happening in isolation: The world is changing, and this week ruled out a reverse. Merkel is the old right wing: a political chameleon when she needed to be yet commanding enough to make tough moral choices. His base is loyal, and none of that is lost on wannabe leaders around the world. We are watching the world order being ripped up over fears of a return to a world order that our current post-war world order was designed to forestall. The world order we are seeing now is one fixing for a fight.

Source: CNN November 03, 2018 02:03 UTC