THE DONALD AND THE DICTATOR: WHAT DOES THE LEFT DO IF SOMETHING POSITIVE HAPPENS?

I've been thinking about this for some time now. While the prospect of Trump and Kim Jong-Un being alone in a room together, each with a translator, scares the poop out of me, I have to wonder, "what if?". What if something positive comes out of this summit? What if Kim agrees to some process that reduces the risk of nuclear engagement? How should we on the left respond?

The Trump-Kim summit scares me. Trump has stated that he does not need to prepare, he will know within the first minute, based on touch and feel, if Kim is going to make a deal. He has stated that if he senses that Kim is not going to make a deal, he will walk out and not waste time. Oh brother. Let's all keep our fingers crossed.

Yes, absolutely, a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula would be a very good thing. A breakdown of the summit, the lack of any kind of agreement* will be a bad thing. So if Trump has any success, the left has to acknowledge it. In other words, we certainly don't want to celebrate a Trump failure, no matter how bizarre the entirety of this summit has been and is. And a Trump success will be a good lesson in bipartisanship for the left; or, as Mrs. Obama often told us: "They go low, we go high."

I will be watching the news closely.
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* I switched to the word "agreement" instead of the word "deal" because foreign policy is not real estate; one does not make "deals."