Trump 2.0 is exposing American exceptionalism for what it is - and has always been | Nesrine Malik

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : This is not to suggest that there is no difference between Trump and his predecessors, or that anyone is under any illusion that the US was a perfect democracy before his arrival on the scene.
54% : Well, to millions of people, Trump is the right person.
47% : Biden continued the practice of previous presidents, Republican and Democrat, of tapping up super-rich donors for ambassadorial positions before Trump made the quid pro quo explicit with his cabinet of billionaires.
34% : The same goes for Trump's withdrawal from international organisations such as the World Health Organization and his imperial adventurism when it comes to foreign policy.
32% : But their actions were already condemned and over-policed way before Trump was re-elected.
28% : But the American dream of prosperity at home and supremacy abroad has long masked a much more cynical and transactional order - one that Trump is both exposing and entrenching.
21% : Even optically, Trump's alliances with tech billionaires is crude and visible, but it mirrors the billionaires and influencers who flocked to Kamala Harris's campaign, more of whom publicly backed her than Trump.
20% : And the temptation is, yet again, to think of Donald Trump as an exogenous shock to US democracy.

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