…environment in which greater executive control seems not only acceptable, but necessary. And once that narrative hardens, it becomes easier to reuse.

…but as something to be magnified and instrumentalized. Don’t put out the fire; pour gasoline on it in order to gain politically from it. In this framework, unrest is not the problem. Unrest, rather, appears to be the pretext by which the American President is creating a visual and legal…

budget and personnel cuts impacting kids, cancer patients, fire and flood victims, to now deploying the National Guard and US military to contain Los Angeles protests, Trump’s dangerous combination of authoritarianism and incompetence are setting the stage for a collapse of American exceptionalism.