Democracy Promotion is Dead: Good Riddance

What passes for intellectual heft at The Atlantic magazine is any criticism of President Donald Trump. In The Atlantic’s pages and its digital fare, you can read the by now discredited musings of David Frum, who helped bring us the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; the inane foreign policy arguments of Max Boot; the interventionist prescriptions of Anne Applebaum; and now the democracy promotion of political science professor Brian Klaas, who in a recent article blames President Trump for killing “American democracy promotion.” If Klaas is correct, that is one more reason that Americans needs to thank President Trump.