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What's the strategic compass for Donald Trump?

Trump is struggling to show he can deliver on promises much more complex than he could have imagined

Illustration by Binay Sinha
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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Claude Smadja
Henry Kissinger once observed that you need to do the real conceptual thinking before getting to power because, once you are there, events are coming so fast and there are so many things to handle that you don’t always have much time for in-depth thinking. Donald Trump might have been well advised to heed this advice. Elected on riding the mood of popular frustration and thanks to trenchant positions and many outrageous soundbites, the 45th President of the United States is now frenetically struggling to show that he is a leader who can deliver on his promises in a domestic
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