"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"
https://t.co/G6jWhm66CZ
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
The only war that Putin is winning is inside Trump’s head. Putin only wins the war on the ground by setting American policy, through Trump.
https://t.co/iXoKJA6A6l
The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.
President Trump’s White House is now a royal court, and his courtiers scurry around, aware that the mercurial monarch might change his mind at any time.
This might seem like an amusing spectacle, but there is a real cost.
My take: