Europe cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr
If the president’s first term didn’t inoculate the American body politic against tyranny, there is no guarantee that a second dose will workDonald Trump is a despot and the US is a democracy. These things can be true simultaneously but not indefinitely.
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