There is a delicious irony at the heart of Donald Trump’s presidency. In his relentless pursuit of dominance, he has done something no opposition movement, no editorial board, and no diplomatic summit could have engineered on its own. He has minted heroes. Not reluctant ones, not accidental ones, but leaders of genuine moral stature who rose precisely because the moment demanded it. Trump created the vacuum, and courageous leaders rushed to fill it. Two figures stand out above the rest: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Different in style, different in circumstance, yet united by the same refusal to perform submission while calling it diplomacy. Trump set the stage. They chose not to exit quietly […]
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