Accidental statesman: How Trump saved free trade, European democracy and free world

May 8, 2026

Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: Well, it’s easy to be a critic. Missing from these jeremiads has been any accounting of all the good things that are happening in the world because of Mr. Trump. Yes, I said it: good things. Perhaps it was Trump Derangement Syndrome that blinded me to his achievements. Perhaps it was only my foolish pride. But it is time to right the balance, to confess error and atone…