SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?

A Reality-Based Assessment of Where Trump’s Power Grab Stands — and Where It’s Going

Americans have spent the past year arguing about whether Trump is “really” an authoritarian, whether he “really” intends to consolidate power, whether the institutions will “really” hold. What almost no one is doing is the one thing that citizens in backsliding democracies consistently fail to do in time:

Assess the threat honestly.

So let’s do that.

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