Ian Bremmer: 'We have passed peak Trump in terms of disruption on the global stage'

François Picard is pleased to welcome Ian Bremmer, the American political scientist, author, and founder and president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. According to Bremmer, we may now be entering the autumn of the “Donroe Doctrine” and the MAGA era: an “America First” isolationist approach in which President Donald J. Trump envisions a return to “greatness” in Gilded Age fashion. But is this the America voters had envisioned? Yet Bremmer is equally emphatic about something else: “America, of course, is a democracy where the people do express their will.” Ultimately, he believes, the political consequences of Trump’s second term will be determined by voters. He has argued that Republicans risk losing the House, and possibly the Senate, in the upcoming congressional elections. For Bremmer, however, the Trump phenomenon is also deeply personal. “President Trump and his administration frequently put themselves above the interests of the country,” he says. “And this really has nothing to do with the Republican Party.” Trump, he points out, was once a Democrat. In Bremmer’s view, this makes the phenomenon distinctly Trumpian, and suggesting that “this pattern will go away after Trump.”...