As Donald Trump is about to be nominated for a second term, how his presidency has already altered the orientation of his party is on display.
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Even in confronting Xi Jinping's China, Trump's primary concern is not on how Beijing treats its people but on how it treats us.
America has a history of such cold realism.
FDR recognized Stalin's regime in the USSR in 1933, when Hitler rose to power in Germany. Ike invited Nikita Khrushchev to tour the U.S. after the "Butcher of Budapest" had drowned the Hungarian Revolution in blood. During the Cold War, we partnered with Somoza, the Shah, Gen. Pinochet and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Trump, too, sees himself not as a moral crusader for human rights but as a defender of American interests in the world.
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