Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power

 

 

"t’s hard to see in a blizzard. When so much is coming at you, one thing after another, it becomes impossible to discern anything but a blur. You become disoriented and lose your balance. If that was the aim of Donald Trump’s first 100 hours in office, it’s definitely working.

Whether it’s the obvious abuse of power involved in stripping a former adviser and ally of personal security because he dared criticise Trump or in profiting from high office by issuing a cryptocurrency meme coin on the eve of the inauguration, the picture is clear: the most powerful office in the world is becoming the court of an emperor, untrammelled by alliances, the constitution or the law. The task is to see it."

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Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian