‘In my book [The world after the west], I quote Henry Kissinger, who said in one of his last interviews that Trump is the kind of historical figure who marks the end of an era and forces us to confront the hypocrisy of the old order,’ the German political scientist Daniel Marwecki says, in an interview with Nynke van Verschuer, published in the Dutch newspaper NRC.

Marwecki names a few occasions that marked the end of the post-war world order.The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the financial crisis of 2008, Brexit, the first Trump presidency.

The moral ground on which the post-war Western world order rested has always been ambiguous and full of hypocrisy (can we imagine morality without hypocrisy?) but ‘non-Western countries also have more power in other areas.’

More power? Maybe.

Marwecky rightly points out that the biggest threat to liberal democracies comes from inside, not outside.