Martin Wolf

He has no ideology really beyond that, except it is very, very important to make clear in every bilateral relationship, he thinks bilaterally, that he's the boss.

and the others aren't.

And so he will throw his weight around, particularly against anybody who thinks he's essentially not showing him proper respect in various different ways.

So Maduro, so the Mullers.

And as he put it, the only constraint is my own sense of morality.

Well, you work out what that means.

So that is what he wants, what he wants to be, and he will naturally respect people who are like him.

The movement, I think, has multiple different objectives.

Some of them would like the United States, which coincides with Trump, the United States to be a 19th century great power.

Britain in 1850, Palmerstonian Britain.

We have no friends, no permanent enemies.

We have permanent interests.

That would be a more intellectual version of this.

And obviously, lots of them think that.

But some of them pretty well.

Obviously, Hegsworth is a Christian crusader.

That's a completely different set of ideological aims.

Vance seems to be an isolationist.

So there's nothing coherent there.

And so in the end, when I look at this, I think this is Trump's party.