Complacent liberals were too slow to see Trump coming

"Everything in moderation, including moderation". The paradox is worthy of Oscar Wilde, even if he did not coin it. His radical ability to think outside the box is sorely needed in a Europe debating how to respond to theshocks coming from Trump's America. The transatlantic relationship, set within the Cold War and after it, has underwritten European politics for eight decades after the second World War. The terms to settle that conflict partitioned the Continent between the US-dominated western part, and the eastern one dominated by the Soviet Union. Associated liberal democrat and communist divisions penetrated both blocs, but overall…