Weakness

There is an old Soviet tale about Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At lunchtime, he would retreat into his office and stare at the map of the world. The map was centered on the Soviet Union. The old Bolshevik would just glare at it as if it were a giant chessboard awaiting Moscow’s next move.

Joe Biden is teetering in the corner. His popularity is careening downward due to the concurrent major crises he created: the border disaster and the inflation spike.

"Instead of doing his job, he [Barr] did the opposite and told people within the Justice Department not to investigate the election," Trump says.

Ties that bind authoritarian powers grow as president advances their shared narrative of a U.S. in decline