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For that matter the one reason that the “authoritarian consolidation” has not been totally realized yet is not down to some thoughtful temperance and restraint like a normal administration exercises, as Douthat demands you believe, but because they outright lost the fight in Minneapolis this winter
Noah BerlatskyI would say that domestically trump has not consolidated authoritarianism to the extent his worst critics feared, but in foreign policy his record has been exponentially worse than anyone was talking about, short of actual nuclear war. (still a possibility!)