Re: The Nov. 27 column “Is Trump finally done?” by Colin Woodard (Page D1):
He concluded: “Europe, I said, would be ill advised not to develop contingency plans for a world which they, not us, might be leaders of the free world. Let’s all hope it doesn’t come to that.”
Europe and foremost, Germany, have risen a long way from the 1945 Marshall Plan. The United States has risen also and become a world power and influence, but it may have reached its pinnacle since 1620 and 1776. Who will “roadblock” the ambitions of China, Russia, Iran, North Korea? Not the less-than-firm (and sometimes needed to be implacable) European Union leadership. Not Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, or the Republican Party.
Finished or not, could it be that Donald Trump will prove to be a catalyst to give rise, out of the moral sediment, to a charismatic wolf in sheep’s clothing – an unexpected, by most, beyond-firm leader of a revived Roman Empire?
Richard Mackin Jr.
Millinocket
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