Intelligencer political columnist Ross Barkan says President Donald Trump appears to be singing the same old tune from his first term.“After spending much of the year on a sort of revanchist blitzkrieg that terrified the left and convinced many that his second term would far outpace his first, Trump...

Intelligencer political columnist Ross Barkan says President Donald Trump appears to be singing the same old tune from his first term.

“After spending much of the year on a sort of revanchist blitzkrieg that terrified the left and convinced many that his second term would far outpace his first, Trump has begun to genuinely fail,” said Barkan. “And the failure, for those who followed the last time closely, is familiar: Rising autocracy is headed off by rank incompetence.”

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Based on polling the US public is there already, the US just isn’t functional enough of a democracy for it to matter.