How Much Will Trump’s Foreign Policy Chaos Really Hurt Him?

On every front, President Donald Trump’s tumultuous second term is testing the public’s tolerance for turmoil. American allies are recoiling from the shockwave Trump has unleashed on international affairs even as thousands of US citizens protest the disorder he has unleashed at home.

The administration’s uncharacteristic retreat this week in Minnesota signaled a grudging recognition that its mass deportation program, in its current form, has crossed a line most of the public will not follow. And now, a new survey released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Chicago Council on Global Affairs suggests that Trump is likewise going much further than most Americans would like in dismantling the alliance-based international order that has underpinned American foreign policy since World War II.