President Trump did the impossible last week. He horrified the neo-isolationist “restrainers” who hoped that his second term would see the U.S. turning away from foreign quarrels to focus on “America first.” And Mr. Trump simultaneously left what remains of the old globalist American foreign policy establishment wringing its hands in despair and chagrin.
While pushing for regime change in Venezuela and launching into nation-building in Gaza, the indefatigable American president got into promoting humanitarian intervention in Africa by repeating his threat to use force against what many in the Trump administration are now calling a genocide of Christians in Nigeria. Would John Bolton have been more ambitious? Did Samantha Power bring more energy to humanitarian interventions overseas?