It’s still in peril The contrasts during Thursday’s 80th D-Day remembance in Normandy could hardly have been more stark. The choices ahead for the U.S., NATO and Europe were there in subtext even when not all but obvious. Stephen Collinson comments for CNN: President Joe Biden is in Europe, warning of totalitarian evil and the dangers to democracy. Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is back home, seeking a favor from Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, mulling revenge and trashing US elections. The former president is making his 2024 opponent’s case — that the West is being challenged by unprecedented threats to the rule of law from hostile forces outside and in. But Trump’s strength also suggests that the centerpiece of Biden’s trip — an homage on Friday in Normandy to one of former President Ronald Reagan’s greatest speeches — may fall on many deaf ears back in America. The former president is showing in every speech and public appearance that the seduction of demagoguery, the demonization of outsiders and the language of extremism is as potent now as it was before World War II. The 80th anniversary commemorations of the D-Day invasion that led to the liberation of Europe have turned into a rallying point for Western leaders warning that the darkest forces of political extremism are awakening. They have also used their meetings and speeches to draw parallels between Putin’s vicious assault on Ukraine and Adolf Hitler’s blitzkrieg. There’s nothing new in a modern US president traveling to Europe to invoke the shared history of victory over…