Not only was President Biden “grossly incompetent,” Donald Trump often complained while out of office, but his successor was a poor leader who refused to hold his own team accountable. “Nobody ever gets fired,” Trump said during a Fox and Friends interview last September. “They don't fire anybody.”

A second Trump administration will coincide with the ascent of new China hawks to increasing levels of influence, one of whom previously told RealClearPolitics that the United States is already engaged in a new “Cold War” with the Chinese Communists.