Donald Trump “has proven Jeremiah Wright correct about a lot of things”, said Ben Rhodes, a former speechwriter and deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama and still a close aide to the ex-president. “If you look at the things that Jeremiah Wright was kind of canceled for, it was saying America was a nation founded on racism. Well, it’s a fairly common view these days. 9/11 was the chickens coming home to roost? I make versions of that argument every time I write for the New York Times : that American foreign policy has blowback.” Rhodes was discussing Wright because the Chicago pastor was at the center of a fraught episode in Obama’s rise to power, which forms a key chapter in his new book, All We Say – The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches.…