Peter Shinkle writes: 'Donald Trump's offer to negotiate peace in Ukraine illustrates how far we've fallen from the days of bipartisan collaboration for global democracy.'
President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the the Presidential Palace on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland.
Eighty years ago, in the midst of World War II, American Republican leader Wendell Willkie traveled around the world on a tour that Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt backed in an effort to bolster America’s attack on fascism. Willkie’s trip, which lasted from August to October 1942, was a stunning display of America’s powerful bipartisan defense of democracy.
Trump’s musing might be rejected as just another in a spate of wishes that the war would stop. Even the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has offered a peace plan —On Oct. 11, Viktor Orban, conservative prime minister of Hungary,that Trump could resolve the conflict. “The hope for peace is Donald Trump,” Orban said.
A B-24 plane, which transported Wendell Willkie around the world on a tour of battle fronts as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal representative, serves as a backdrop at Washington National Airport on Oct. 14, 1942, as the former Republican presidential nominee, seen at microphone, greets newsreel camera operators and a small crowd.
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