India, March 5 -- President Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of the US Congress confirmed that he represents not just a political party or a political movement but a revolution. Trump's revolution is based on the premise that the ruling American establishment before him presided over an expansive and fiscally unsustainable regime at home and abroad that made life more difficult for ordinary Americans and allowed the world to exploit the US. With this simple - opponents describe it as simplistic - diagnosis, Trump's revolution goes on to offer its prescription that has been visible over the last six weeks.

This revolution has dismantled parts of the American State. It has dramatically withdrawn from international regimes an...