Terry Glavin: Donald Trump will not be the leader of the free world

It’s no sure thing that the United States will ever regain its global standing

Donald Trump is a vulgar, swaggering braggart and a shameless liar. His re-election to the American presidency Tuesday may well trigger an unprecedented crisis in the functioning of American constitutional democracy. You never know. What appears by all evidence to be inevitable and unstoppable now, though, is the final abdication of American leadership in what used to be called “the free world.”