Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, reminded the world that leaders can be thoughtful, articulate, intelligent, honest, democratic and humane. Donald Trump stayed true to character. He told Carney, “Canada lives because of the United States; remember that Mark the next time you make your statements”. Before the entire globe, the notion of American exceptionalism received an irrefutable interment. As Trump puts it, “we can do it the easy way or the hard way.” Democracy and the rule of law are naïve, old school.