A middle school student busts open the piñata during a Hispanic American Heritage Month observance in Germany, in 2005.

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President Trump is deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing. A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—seems imminent, Susan B. Glasser writes.