I'm often asked "How can you claim President Trump is in any way supporting your antiwar agenda when he …" and this is followed by a reference to at least one of the places on earth where he's violating his "no more regime change" pledge or otherwise supporting the unsupportable, as in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. I've always answered by saying that, in the long run, and in a general sense, his November 2016 win was a giant step forward in that the anti-interventionist principle has been victorious even if it's being imperfectly implemented.

However, back in April I raised the possibility of an active "resistance" inside the White House that is specifically preventing him from carrying out his mandate for peace. In "A President Held Hostage?" I outlined the scenario an anonymous White House official described in a recent New York Times op ed piece, wherein he or she describes the forces out to destroy Trump's presidency:

"The dilemma – which he does not fully grasp – is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

"I would know. I am one of them."