Trump's chief strategist's vision isn't America first; it's America alone

What does it mean for international relations when the most powerful country becomes a pariah state?

Donald Trump is holding up the severed head of the Statue of Liberty.

It’s a striking image for a magazine cover. But it’s not the front of the Nation or the ACLU newsletter. It’s this week’s issue of Der Spiegel, Germany’s version of Time Magazine. To punctuate the point, one of Spiegel’s articles declares Donald Trump “the world’s most dangerous man.”

Der Spiegel is channelling a widespread European sentiment. It took only a couple weeks for the Trump administration to make transatlantic relations so toxic that Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, felt the need to slap an