T.S. Eliot thought April the cruelest month. But this January gave it a run for its money. The old year ended with President Donald Trump’s ears ringing with claims he was a lame duck after a manic Christmas address. The new one started with him desperate to dispel the curse of second-term presidents. It was a month when Trump went further than ever before at home and abroad to implement what his aide Stephen Miller defined to CNN as the “iron laws of the world,” namely strength, force and power. There can be no denying the might of America’s hard...