The U.S. Public Is Not Anti-Western

Optimists expect the sensible donor class to recapture the Republicans once he has gone. Others suspect he is all too durable: the trigger for an age of populism, not just four or eight years of it. Either way, the president's tour of Europe has underlined the stakes. He was kinder to Russia than to Nato or the EU. In remarks he later withdrew, Mr Trump doubted US intelligence about foreign meddling in domestic politics. If the future plays out in his shadow, then it promises nothing less than American estrangement from the west.