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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: S. maltophilia10/3/2025 1:53:19 PM
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...And all of this happened before Trump, certainly before Trump’s return to power in the 2024 election. Trump is clearly hell-bent on destroying American democracy and turning us into a rogue nation. He is personally cruel, corrupt and vindictive. (Hey, I think I’m allowed to say that about a man who called me a “ deranged bum.”) But it’s the nature of Trump’s party, not his personal depravity, that is responsible for the decline of American democracy.

The obvious next question is how such a party came to power in a nation that has long, for all its flaws, been a beacon of freedom for the world. This in turn is part of the larger question of why “populist” parties have been on the rise throughout the Western world. I use scare quotes around “populist” because neither the GOP nor its counterparts abroad are, in fact, representing the interests of ordinary people. But that’s the term everyone uses....

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