Donald Trump announced that he would not run for President (NR – Primary Events [1]):
I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.
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I look forward to supporting the candidate who is the most qualified to help us tackle our country’s most important issues and am hopeful that, when this person emerges, he or she will have the courage to take on the challenges of the Office and be the agent of change that this country so desperately needs.
Say what you will (and many will do just that), but Trump was the first aspirant in this cycle to bring attention to the danger of the Chinese Communist Party. His instincts pushed the conversation to economics over geopolitics (the case is much stronger in the latter), but they also cracked the “enagement” consensus. For that, if nothing else, we should all be grateful.
Cross-posted to the right-wing liberal [2]