MINOT — To be a committed apologist for President Donald Trump, as North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer has been from the beginning, is to live in a bubble.

You can still see outside, but reality is distorted, and you're trapped inside the filmy lens with your own hot air. But Cramer had his bubble popped, at least for a bit, during a recent trip to Nova Scotia to attend the Halifax International Security Forum.

Cramer's interest in mending fences with the international community — Canada, in particular — is obvious. Our president's bombastic, mean-spirited, Trump-before-all-else approach to international diplomacy has been a wrecking ball to the foundations of America's standing in the world. Canada, meanwhile, is a vital trading partner for North Dakota. Our largest, in fact, accounting for

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