The foreign-policy radicals who torched the Middle East think they have an almost divine right to rule — and they are smarter, too, when intelligence is judged by conformity to their own little group’s preferences. That their moral grandstanding and ideological hubris leads to futile wars and anarchy, with entire populations of Middle Eastern Christians wiped out in their historic homelands, is irrelevant to the democratic revolutionaries’ self-esteem. But the voting public has lost its appetite for this bloody dish, and so Hillary Clinton – the Democrats’ Nikki Haley – lost to Donald Trump, as did the dozen or so heirs of Bush in the GOP primaries.

But Donald Trump, whose own view of world affairs is simply non-ideological–which is a blessing after the grand designs of the leaders who came right before him–is under siege from within and without his administration by officials and commentators who want him to continue the work that President Bush and Secretary Clinton began. Another Iraq, another Libya, another decade in Afghanistan—if Trump won’t bend and deliver this, then the party of democratic holy war is ready for its next campaign: Haley 2020.