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Donald Trump built his political brand on the power of national pride \u2014 and it could have been the “fatal mistake” of his second administration, according to an analysis Friday.<\/p>\n

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The American leader can’t seem to understand that other countries are patriotic too, Alexander Burns wrote for Politico.<\/p>\n

That blind spot is unraveling Trump’s second term \u2014 fracturing alliances with the global right, prolonging a costly war with Iran, and leaving his own Republican Party to absorb the political damage, Burns wrote.<\/p>\n

The warning signs were hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n

When Alberta Premier Danielle Smith \u2014 a populist with deep ties to the American right who once hosted Tucker Carlson in Western Canada \u2014 visited Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s second election win, she looked every bit a MAGA diehard. But when pressed last fall at a Toronto policy summit about Trump potentially meddling in Alberta’s volatile politics, the admiration stopped.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want any foreign influence in our politics here,” Smith said flatly.<\/p>\n

Sovereignty, it turns out, cuts both ways, Burns wrote.<\/p>\n

Trump launched his political career as a hard-edged nationalist, demanding tougher borders and American sovereignty above all else. He cheered Britain’s 2016 Brexit vote and crowned himself “Mr. Brexit.” He understood, viscerally, what it meant for a people to refuse outside domination.<\/p>\n

But that instinct has deserted him, Burns wrote.<\/p>\n

“In his second term, Trump\u2019s grasp of nationalist politics has slipped. He has underestimated the power of patriotism and national pride in countries other than his own,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“This serial miscalculation has undermined Trump\u2019s trade wars and military adventures, aggravated the cost-of-living crisis, weakened the Republican Party and battered Trump\u2019s bonds with the global right.”<\/p>\n

Read more Trump-caused \u2018chaos\u2019 finally forces GOP\u2019s Senate leader to snap: \u2018Extraordinary rebuke\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

His tariff threats and belittling taunts against Canada didn’t break Ottawa’s will, but instead triggered patriotism that swept a new prime minister, Mark Carney, into power on a platform of resisting American economic domination. His attempted humiliation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office \u2014 dressing him down while grabbing for Ukraine’s mineral wealth \u2014 was such a naked affront to Ukrainian sovereignty that Zelenskyy faced zero political consequences for telling Trump to get lost.<\/p>\n

Dispatching Vice President JD Vance to campaign in Hungary’s election didn’t save Viktor Orb\u00e1n from a landslide defeat. Attempts to meddle in judicial decisions in Brazil, commandeer British and Spanish airfields, and dictate military strategy to Israel all went similarly nowhere.<\/p>\n

And then there was Iran.<\/p>\n

Trump’s expectation that he could decapitate the Islamic Republic’s leadership, bomb the country into submission, and install a compliant proxy government \u2014 all without ground troops \u2014 produced a monthslong stalemate that sent energy prices soaring and ground down the global economy.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t have surprised anyone, Burns wrote.<\/p>\n

Even Trump’s ideological admirers abroad have noticed the drift.<\/p>\n

Jordan Bardella, the likely presidential nominee for France’s far-right National Rally and once a Trump enthusiast, told Politico that second-term Trump was barely recognizable. The United States, he said, was now behaving more like an “empire.” Trump himself had become “extremely unsteady and constantly shifting.”<\/p>\n

And like Smith, Bardella wanted nothing to do with a Trump endorsement. “We don’t need to accept or open the door to any form of interference,” he said.<\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s earth-shattering Senate fight reveals terror at what\u2019s coming<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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