Trump’s tariff madness seems like a good time to repost this. “It’s worse than a crime; it’s a blunder”
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Stephen Walt
Authoritarians and would-be autocrats face a problem: the greater their crimes, the greater their fear of retribution if they lose power. So they have a huge incentive to rig the system to stay in office no matter how badly they screw up. See under: Hungary, Turkey, Israel, and now, the US.
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