US Presidents have been trying to cultivate closer ties with India, one of the most populous countries in the world, for over thirty years.

 George W. Bush described them as “brothers in the cause of human liberty.” Barack Obama and Joe Biden both cast the relationship as one of the defining global compacts of this century.

To Washington, India was a vast emerging market, a potential counterweight to China, a key partner in maintaining Indo-Pacific security and a rising power whose democratic identity would bolster a rules-based international order. For its part, India — mistrustful of the West after nearly a century of British colonial rule — shed its Cold War suspicion of Washington, which had armed and financed its archnemesis Pakistan for decades, and moved steadily closer to the United States.

It took Donald Trump one summer to obliterate these gains.

Screw him and the clueless, gullible, ignorant sheep who elected the jackass.