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Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
What was Trump? A fascist? A white nationalist? A malignant narcissist? A conservative with very bad manners? Once he became president, his only legislative achievement—a huge tax cut that heavily favored the rich and corporations—fit right in with Republican orthodoxy. His court appointments were friendly to business interests and also to religiou
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
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Raf Noboa y Rivera • 1 card
American power should be used to protect and spread American principles. At the root of this position is the view that the United States has an obligation to itself and the world to advocate and defend the moral principles on which it was founded, and the belief that behaving like any other country and defending its economic and strategic interests
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
By embracing Trump in significant numbers, I mean to say, the public has signaled that it is willing to impose the untrammeled relations of social media on the fragile forms of American democracy.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
For more moderate government supporters, who had voted for Bolsonaro mainly because he represented the best hope of finally defeating the threat from the political left, two ministers in particular provided reassurance. Moro, as we have already noted, remained the most popular minister in Bolsonaro’s cabinet, even though his first year in the justi
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