Comment: Trump re-election would mark a major turning point in world politics

The US leader’s successor will confront a changed world but how great that change will be depends on whether Donald Trump is a one-term or two-term president

Trump’s anti-interventionism is relatively popular, but his narrow definition of US interests and his scepticism about alliances are not reflective of majority opinion. Picture: Getty

As the United States enters the home stretch of the 2020 presidential election campaign, and with neither party’s nominating convention featuring much discussion of foreign policy, the contest between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden apparently will be waged mainly on the battleground of domestic issues. In the long run, however, historians will ask whether Trump’s presidency was a major turning point in America’s role in the world or just a minor historical accident.

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