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What Trump’s every-country-for-itself rhetoric gets wrong about Davos

  • Written by Stephen D. Smith, Director of Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California

There is a disarming and almost touchingly naive belief among the presenters and the government delegations in the cloistered mountain village of Davos that “creating a shared future in a fractured world” – the title of this year’s World Economic Forum – is actually possible.

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