And another one sees the light

The Atlantic magazine is starting to publish stories that are quite favorible to President Trump. Shocking as they have been a consistntly liberal house organ for the intellectual wing of the Democratic Party. Maybe they are seeing the reality and not just listening to the old narrative any more. From Nadia Schadlow writing at The Atlantic:

Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right About China
When a new coronavirus emerged in China and began spreading around the world, including in the United States, President Donald Trump’s many critics in the American foreign-policy establishment were quick to identify him as part of the problem. Trump had campaigned on an “America first” foreign policy, which after his victory was enshrined in the official National Security Strategy that his administration published in 2017. At the time, I served in the administration and orchestrated the writing of that document. In the years since, Trump has been criticized for supposedly overturning the post–World War II order and rejecting the role the United States has long played in the world. Amid a global pandemic, he’s being accused—on this site and elsewhere—of alienating allies, undercutting multinational cooperation, and causing America to fight the coronavirus alone.

And yet even as the current emergency has proved him right in fundamental ways—about China specifically and foreign policy more generally—many respectable people in the United States are letting their disdain for the president blind them to what is really going on in the world. Far from discrediting Trump’s point of view, the COVID-19 crisis reveals what his strategy asserted: that the world is a competitive arena in which great power rivals like China seek advantage, that the state remains the irreplaceable agent of international power and effective action, that international institutions have limited capacity to transform the behavior and preferences of states.

Much more at the site - an excellent analysis. Ms. Schadlow is no flyweight - from the website - she is: "a former deputy national security adviser for strategy, is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute" And a tip of the hat to Don Surber for the link.