Breakfast Briefing: "Progress" Toward Economic Authoritarianism

La Jornada

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

In his second four years at the head of the White House, Donald Trump has given free rein to his authoritarian instincts, to the use of the government apparatus for personal and family enrichment and to which it is probably the largest institutional dismantling in U.S. history. In a way, it could be said that the tycoon has imported into domestic politics the methods that almost all the superpower leaders have used to impose Washington’s interes…