European leaders seem astounded by Trump’s bullying and blatant aggression

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Sixty years ago, Bob Dylan chanted that “even the president of the United States/ Sometimes must have to stand naked”. But now there is no “sometimes” about it. The president of the United States is full frontal all the time. Donald Trump has stripped away all the niceties that allowed too many people to remain in denial about his intentions. The last two months have been a radically revised version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fable The Emperor’s New Clothes. In the original, the emperor is duped by two swindlers into parading naked and everyone goes along with the illusion until...