On January 23, President Donald Trump delivered a polite but firm address to the World Economic Forum. At the annual gathering in Davos, he detailed a muscular platform of American sovereignty to the arch-denizens of a “rules-based international order” that finds itself in retreat throughout the west.
Trump spent a good portion of his speech repudiating the administration of former President Joe Biden, who spent four years in office presenting himself as a 50-year champion of that progressive internationalist vision. “My administration is acting with unprecedented speed to fix the disasters we’ve inherited from a totally inept group of people and to solve every single crisis facing our country,” Trump told a roomful of global bigwigs.
The Name of the Blame
Trump excoriated Biden for allowing inflation to spiral out of control, failing to…