All presidents have had fixations which put their administrations in the lose column. The Bush mindset, for example of China prospering with economic progress that will shift them away from Communism to Capitalism. While it looked like it was happening, look closely and you'll find a step out of the communist mindset gets you in the prison of the disappeared.As to our reward, from Bill Clinton onward has been China gleefully getting revenge for hundreds of years of western imperialism with nuclear weapons and vassal nations with nuclear capability. Go back to Bush #1 you'll see a conventional Republican who so angered his base that Ross Perot stepped in and caused a win for a very flawed Bill Clinton who helped start China on its road to power.Then we got George Bush #2, with a fixation about producing a world of democratic countries He did not fathom the difference between secular dictators like Saddam and Jihadists like Bin Ladin and so, not knowing that there were white hats among the black every Arab, Shia or Sunni became the enemy instead of taking sides which screwed up things to the max. Then came Obama, the Islamophile who was unable to day radical Islamic terrorism. With the help of Hillary Clinton he ampliphied the the chaos by creating the so-called Arab Spring and killing Qaddafi.thus capping the mish-mash started by Bush culminating in the Iran deal which became the paymaster bank for Iran and the Shias. For all the good Trump has done regarding taxes and regulations his fixation about trade and tariffs ignoring that you cannot put the last 50 years of globalization like the genie back in the bottle, but you can do a tariff (see Smoot Hawley)like the 20's decade which led to the doom of the world economy, and The Great Depression.