You have to go back 40 years to find a presidential candidate saying something quite as loony about Russia as the many things Donald Trump said in his press conference Wednesday. …
But what about today? If Mr. Trump’s advisers wanted to find some solace in the polls, could they? The Cold War, after all, is a quarter-century in the past, and some people—the Republican nominee included, it seems—think the U.S. should take a more relaxed view of Russia. Does the public agree? CONT.
Stephen Sestanovich (Columbia U.), Wall Street Journal