The US is not the West. But the West would be severely diminished, even finished, without the US. If it were to abandon central tenets of Westernness and its alliances with other Western countries, even if just for a few years, the barbarians who are at the West’s gates would applaud and conclude that the modern equivalent of the Roman Empire was about to collapse. The ideas advocated by Donald Trump represent the beginning of exactly that sort of abandonment.
