“I run the country and the world,” President Trump boasted to reporters for the Atlantic in April, by way of explaining how his current presidency differs from his first. Even for the clinically braggadocious Trump, that was a mouthful.

Yes, alas, he does run the country, with a bold recklessness like no president before him, and often lawlessly. He’s virtually unchallenged by a supposedly co-equal Congress run by obeisant fellow Republicans who are scared of him and his voters, and he’s only partly limited by federal courts that are constrained, as he’s not, by fealty to the slow and deliberative rule of law.

But Trump running the world? That’s hardly clear. As often as not, the world seems to be running him.

Yes, Trump is wielding power and forcing global leaders and foreign

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