India, March 18 -- Given how different the world is in mid-March compared to mid-January, it is foolish to gaze into the future. But there is a value to thought experiments based on current trendlines. And in that spirit, in the week of the Raisina Dialogue, it is worth posing a set of macro questions about the post-Trumpian world in 2028.

The first question is if Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is a fleeting or an enduring political feature of the US. Beyond personalities, this politics is marked by hostility to the federal administrative State; a belief that the America-led international political and economic liberal order has harmed America; contempt for dependent allies and outreach to strong adversaries; Whi...