America Must Win Back Its Global Standing

From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land," President Donald Trump declared in his inaugural address in January 2017. "From this moment on, it's going to be America First." An insular, populist nationalism, coupled with an antipathy toward globalist ideas and institutions, became the central theme and the clarion call of both his terms in the White House.

President Trump has spent considerable energy lambasting the United Nations, an institution the United States helped create 80 years ago and has shaped ever since. He has derided it as an "unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy," and little more than "a talking shop."...