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How to trump Trump

How to trump Trump

Lessons for democracies from a 24-country poll

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Jan 18, 2025
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History of the Present (four weeks ending 18 January 2025)

When returning US president Donald Trump eyes up Greenland, Panama and Canada, as Vladimir Putin once eyed Crimea and Xi Jinping eyes Taiwan, he is both symptom and cause of a new world disorder. Trumpism is just one variant of transactionalism, which is the leitmotif of this new disorder. Libera…

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