Americans’ faith in Trump will decline if he cannot bring the Iran conflict to a sensible conclusion, while the loyalty of congressional Republicans is being tested by his solipsism.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

Let’s not exaggerate: Yeats’s lines do not yet describe the Trump administration and its foreign policy. But the direction now, in the 17th month of his second term, is toward confusion and failure.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/06/in-trumps-second-term-things-start-to-fall-apart/

Non-paywall version:

https://archive.is/HqB7x