Defining Donald Trump
Defining Donald Trump
- January 8, 2026
- Jeff Kopstein, political science, Financial Times, Jan. 08, 2026
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Trump resembles a premodern patrimonial leader from the era before states, argue Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein [UC Irvine political science professor] in another essay in Wenn das Gestern anklopft. In other words, he is more Iron Age chieftain than a fascist leading a modern state. Indeed, he tasked Elon Musk with axing chunks of the state.
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