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David French

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1977 total appearances

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The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

It's Trump and the 77, 78 million people who voted for him.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

And that is the message that has been sent.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

It's the message that's being absorbed and it's going to haunt us for a generation.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Jamal?

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

I mean, let me put it this way.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

We've had a global rules-based order that's always been teetering from the moment it was created.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

So it's always been relatively fragile, in part because, you know, you had the five powers of the Security Council—Russia, China, France, Great Britain, and the United States—

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

So long as the most powerful of those five, the United States, was largely in agreement, never perfectly, but largely in agreement with the rules-based order, it could kinda stick together.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

It would be like this tape and bailing wire and everything, but it was holding together enough to do the number one thing it was designed to do, which is to prevent great power conflict.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

But if you take the most powerful of those five countries

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

and you remove them from the category of largely siding with the rules-based order like Britain and France, and turn them into something much more like an independent autonomous actor like Russia and China, then you fracture it, and we're already entering into a moment of real peril as a result.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Why are you against volcano insurance, Jamel?

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

That's right.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

He is pro-lava.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

So here's one thing that is, there's a couple of things that are driving me crazy about this debate.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Number one.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Just a couple?

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Go ahead.

The Opinions
Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Just a couple.

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Trump’s Recklessness Will ‘Haunt Us for a Generation’

Well, it was just the two top, top two things.