Martin Wolf

Because that's not it.

That's not over.

You have to think that this has become unthinkable.

And it doesn't seem to me likely looking at it.

So the honest truth, and someone who lived in America for 10 years, a foreigner, but I lived there, followed it closely, the place has become completely bewildering.

And a completely bewildering superpower is absolutely terrifying.

Nobody likes China.

Nobody, really.

but they know what it's about.

It's predictable.

You know how the regime works.

You know how the system works.

You know what she's trying to do.

That one can live with.

It's very difficult to live with a country with this power, which is as completely bewildering as this one has become.

And I've tried to give you some sense of how I think about it.

And in the end, what I do is see an incoherent movement of people full of resentments and hatreds, including amongst one another, but also against other Americans, the rest of the world.

And Trump, who is sort of

You can make sense of him as long as you accept he doesn't operate in a way that one would normally think of as rational.

So when I think of a ruler like him, I think of Nero.