It's the reign of King Donald: now a people who fled cruel monarchs have their own | Martin Kettle

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : That is why Trump will govern this way as much as he can.
50% : True, bitter weather drove the event indoors, and into the very same Capitol building on which Trump had encouraged the mob to march in 2021.
44% : This is exactly why George Washington himself might have recognised the court political system now flourishing around Trump as something approximating to the form of kingly governance against which he was driven to revolt nearly 250 years ago.
43% : Yet this week provided many glimpses into how that ideal is now being challenged by a less enviable reality, which will accelerate under Trump.
42% : Not all of this is down to Trump alone.
39% : Plenty more, however, were there because they had bought their way in and want favours from Trump, who shamelessly marketises his political power.
39% : The presence of British politicians loyal and admiring of Trump, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson (once a would-be king too) and Liz Truss among them, offered a further reminder about courts.
33% : Trump is not, by any instinct or evidence, a conventional or continuity president.
29% : Yet if Trump is serious about doing away with part of the US constitution - birthright citizenship - what other sections might he try to override?
12% : But the formalities were observed in the way the constitution requires, and many judged Trump more subdued this time than in his 2017 speech - the one George W Bush dubbed "some weird shit".

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