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Trump and the dangerous return to the Weimar era
Rather than restraint and responsible leadership, the drift is towards ultra-nationalism and simplistic solutions.
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The scariest aspect of the Trump presidency is that he promotes unpredictability and disruption as his principal techniques of governance and especially foreign policy, says the writer.
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Robert Kaplan is a Washington-based journalist whom you don’t read first thing in the morning if you want to enjoy the rest of the day. He is a conservative – absolutely not the Maga (Make America Great Again) kind – who has advised government officials and gets read by lots of important people.
He is now a doomsayer. “We have to be able to consider,” he writes in a new book entitled Waste Land: A World In Permanent Crisis, “that literally anything can happen to us.”
