Pretending to help Donald Trump

The alarming events of the past couple of weeks have made it clear that not one but several crises are likely to occur in the relatively near future. It’s hard to predict how they will interact, and we cannot arrange them in any particular sequence. However, they certainly would interact – and they would all involve the United States.

The first and worst would be a civil war in the United States, probably emerging from a disputed outcome in the mid-term elections in November. The incumbents...