President Donald Trump has thrown the European Union a lifeline. I am sure he did not mean to. He makes no secret of his disdain for the EU, which he sees, with good reason, as anti-democratic, inimical to national sovereignty, and implicitly hostile to the United States. Yet he is about to give it a major victory, pushing a wealthy and successful Western state into its arms.

Brexit should have marked the end of EU expansion. Sure, the organization might yet pick up some poor and frightened former Soviet republics. But never again, or so we all thought, would it attract a serious Western European state. The question was not whether Norway or Switzerland might join — it was whether Denmark or the Netherlands might leave.

Then along came Trump, tariffs, and the threat to NATO, and suddenly things began to look different. I have written before about the way in which MAGA has had the effect of weakening conservative and pro-American parties everywhere else. The........

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