Keineswegs ein politisches Programm. Deswegen wird er noch viel Unheil anrichten, bevor er stürzt, eventuell auch neue Kriege beginnen. Im Inneren wir es auch zu Unruhen und Aufständen kommen, aber gewinnen wird er nicht.
Selbst seine Wähler wollen nicht in einem Land wie Erdogans Türkei oder Putins Russland leben.
In the end, however, he will fail. He will fail because however shrewd his tactics are, his strategy is terrible—The New York Times, the CIA, Mexican Americans, and all the others he has attacked are not going away. With every act he makes new enemies for himself and strengthens their commitment; he has his followers, but he gains no new friends. He will fail because he cannot corrupt the courts, and because even the most timid senator sooner or later will say “enough.” He will fail most of all because at the end of the day most Americans, including most of those who voted for him, are decent people who have no desire to live in an American version of Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, or Viktor Orban’s Hungary, or Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
There was nothing unanticipated in this first disturbing week of the Trump administration. It will not get better. Americans should therefore steel themselves, and hold their representatives to account. Those in a position to take
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