The LedeTrump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. RacePhotograph by Evan Vucci / ReutersSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyAustralia plays a number of interesting roles in the world, and one of them is as part of what scientists call a “natural experiment,” in which significant forces can be observed at work outside a laboratory. The nation occupies its own prosperous if smallish continent, linked to Asia by geography and to Europe and the West by history and language, and over time it has shown a certain amount of ideological flexibility. That flexibility is not always wholly admirable:…