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Thomas Friedman

A great unravelling is under way in the greatest country on earth

I am haunted by Abraham Lincoln’s warning that the only power that can destroy America is ourselves. If you aren’t worried by that prospect, you are not paying attention.

If you are confused by President Donald Trump’s zigzagging strategies on Ukraine, tariffs, microchips or a host of other issues, it is not your fault. It’s his.

What you are seeing is a president who ran for re-election to avoid criminal prosecution and to get revenge on people he falsely accused of stealing the 2020 election. He never had a coherent theory of the biggest trends in the world today and how to best align America with them to thrive in the 21st century. That is not why he ran.

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Thomas Friedman is a New York Times columnist.

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