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Trump Has Failed Where Many Authoritarians Succeed in One Critical Way
Trump has spent two years working through the authoritarian playbook—and Donald Moynihan, professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan, joins the show to score how far he’s gotten. We go category by category: controlling the bureaucracy (a nine out of ten), capturing the legal system, co-opting the military, cracking down through internal security agencies like ICE, and coercing civil society—law firms, universities, and the media. Then we get to the one place where Trump has fallen significantly short of what authoritarians typically accomplish—controlling…
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