After a week in which the American president trashed Nato and humiliated the UK, our Writer at Large argues that you can’t both support Trump and claim to be loyal to Britain.

One of the many unusual side effects of living in Trump Time is how the American president has turned the right into revolutionaries and the liberal-left into ‘conservatives’.

In this case, ‘conservative’ doesn’t mean Tory or Republican, but rather a voter who wishes to conserve and protect the old order, a voter who is resistant to change.

That’s what Tories and Republicans once stood for, remember? They didn’t want upheaval.

They believed that maintaining the status quo as much as possible was the best policy. In the past, it was the liberal-left which called for change, and then more change.

Today, those on the liberal-left may not support the current status quo economically, but when it comes to geopolitics, nearly all are firmly behind the old rules-based order and the postwar alliances which held that order together.

The new right – particularly in its nationalist culture warrior form – wants to obliterate that order. The old order represents ‘globalism’ – a shapeshifting phantom of their imaginations – and today’s new right are nativist in their souls.

Trump is an acid bath. He both changes and reveals the true nature and intentions of people and nations.

It could be argued that he has metamorphosed the liberal-left, once seen as distinctly unpatriotic in Britain and America, into........

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