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We must resist Trump. The roughly three months of his second term have confirmed what was clear before the election: Trump is unfit to be President. He is governing as a mob boss, on the basis of “might makes right,” tearing down the rule of law. Trump’s model here is clearly Putin in a style of government that Max Weber famously called Patrimonialism. For the avoidance of doubt: the reason to oppose Trump are not his stated policy goals. We need changes in regulation and bureaucracy so that ...

I wrote previously about the threat of a Trump dictatorship. That was in 2020 which seems like a long time ago. After I wrote that post we got close to disaster when Trump attempted in various ways to stay in power despite the election results. We are now in the second Trump term and the situation is considerably worse. Back then I wrote that “... I deem it unlikely that Trump has a masterplan for becoming a dictator. Then again he probably didn’t have a masterplan for becoming president but ...

Before the election I was clear that Trump was unfit to be President based on his character: fundamentally his approach to life is that might makes right. That of course is antithetical to the rule of law on which modern societies and economies rely. So how is it going? Well, reasonable people can disagree on policy choices, such as tariffs. The point of democracies is to be able to change policies in a non-violent manner. Then there is the grift, most notably with Trump coin. That too was to...