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“Trump is a creature native to our own style of government and therefore much more difficult to protect ourselves against,” the Yale political theorist Bryan Garsten wrote. “He is a demagogue, a popular leader who feeds on the hatred of elites that grows naturally in democratic soil.” A demagogue can become a tyrant, but it’s the people who put him
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Mao Keji says Americans voted for Trump because "America’s problems— social, economic and political—had become so entrenched that they could no longer be fixed by politics as usual."
He argues however that the actions of the new administration remind him of those of Khrushchev in the Soviet Union "who, in his secret speech at the 20th Congress of
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