Collusion and World War III – WSJ

When our media and historians stop being corrupted by their own pusillanimity, here s what they ll see. The attempt by the U.S. national security establishment to defeat the domestic Trump phenomenon by painting it as a Russian cat s-paw belongs on any list of its biggest post-Cold War failures. The misguided collusion enterprise ranks up there with Iraq, Afghanistan, the failure to stop 9/11, the failure to deter Russia in Ukraine and the failure to deter Iran s proxies in the Middle East.

Many dystopias touted in the current campaign now are in sight as a result of these blunders. America s alliances may unravel no matter who wins in November if we can t find a way to secure Ukraine and deter China over Taiwan. Price controls and rationing? They ll be coming no matter who s elected if the U.S. is forced to fight a global war while already running massive deficits to prop up Social Security and Medicare.

In a close election every bloc is a swing bloc. One that ought to worry the Kamala Harris campaign consists of sophisticated voters waiting with growing impatience for a few words out of her mouth to indicate she s not a brainless parrot, that she has the imagination to lead when so many domestic and foreign failures are intertwined as described above.

It doesn t take much; this segment of the electorate is politically realistic and picks up on signs, but she s been sending all the wrong ones, captured in a Babylon Bee headline:   I Was Born Into A Middle Class Family, Explains Wife When Husband Asks Why The Car Is On Fire.

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Holman Jenkins.