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Insider details what makes Trump’s explosive volatility so dangerous
Trump Alone Is Still Trump in ChargeThe Source, BrieflyTom Nichols argues that Trump’s isolation is making him more volatile, and that the people around him have been reduced to protecting him from the consequences of his own impulses. The examples he points to are familiar: tariffs that harm Americans, hostility to NATO, the war with Iran, and officials like Todd Blanche and JD Vance being forced to defend positions they previously claimed to reject.Power Has Not DisappearedThe central fact here is not Trump’s loneliness. It is Trump’s power. Isolation does not weaken a strongman in any…
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