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Robert Reich reveals the real 'source of Trump’s power' — and it isn’t MAGA
Trump’s “Power” Is Not Mystique. It Is Elite Surrender.Personality as Cover StoryThe source text tries to explain Donald Trump as a kind of political force of nature: norm-breaking, amoral, unconstrained, impossible to contain. That framing is useful to him because it turns deliberate behavior into mysticism. Trump is not powerful because he is mysterious. He is powerful because institutions keep deciding that his violations are something other people must absorb.A campaign, a party, a summit, a presidency, a media ecosystem, and a judicial order do not get to hide behind psychology. They are…
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