We can’t be so focused on Trump outrages that we are blind to the need for the Democrats to unhook their wagon from the professional political classes, and the rarified world they inhabit, in order to listen to people like MGP about the experience and frustrations of normal people.

As for another border dispute, Trump has not announced a status for future Greenland, nor even advanced ideas of how it might be governed from Washington.

When chased by a bear, remember Forest Rule No. 1: Be faster than the person next to you.

The self-proclaimed “very stable genius” is not an economist. Nor is he a diplomat, decrying the Danes as “ungrateful“ for daring to hold onto a territory they first claimed 300 years ago.

He insulted the other 31 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as "weak" and "ungrateful" for all that he personally has done for them.

So there you have it: the post-war international order, which has fostered international prosperity, spread democracy and prevented a catastrophic Third World War, is officially over, replaced by a medieval contest of power and force