the promise of postapartheid South Africa has not been realized. For its part, Nigeria was a British colony for a century before gaining its independence in 1960. The country’s subsequent history can only be described as deeply troubled; its initial decades were marked by civil war, secessionist challenges, and military rule. Its politics seem to

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In fact, American society was so successful for so long not because of these ideas and principles, but because of a certain geopolitical good fortune, an abundance of resources and immigrant energy, a generous flow of capital and technology from Europe, and two wide oceans that kept conflicts of the world away from American shores.

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As I would assess over time, Trump’s instincts weren’t always wrong about the policy or end state he wanted to achieve. However, the odds of success were spoiled or the goal tarnished by the process he often followed (little to none); the strategy he usually pursued (narrow and incomplete); the consensus he normally built behind it (minimal and

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