Anne Applebaum: How a Trump presidency could destabilize Europe
Delegates listen to speakers on the final night at the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21.
The secret plot to control America, launched from abroad, is an old theme in American pop culture. “The Manchurian Candidate,” a film made in 1962, imagined a Chinese scheme to engineer a coup d’etat. Aficionados of paranoid thrillers may also recall “Lucky Bastard,” a 1998 Charles McCarry novel, which featured a U.S. president controlled by a Soviet case officer who happens to be his wife.
