The So-Called Trump-Ramaphosa ‘Ambush’

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

Trump is simply reminding the world that the long-ago optimism of a new Mandela South

Africa has long vanished. And U.S. foreign policy needs to readjust to the alterations that South Africa, not the U.S., had previously made to our relationship. Ramaphosa apparently thinks, like the thousands of South African residents in the U.S., that the adoring, institutionalized, left-wing administrative state, media, universities, and foundations still run the U.S. But at least for the foreseeable future, they do not.