The Dispatch Warns Trump and GOP Have Brought Our Country to the Verge of Something Awful and Unspeakable'

"No, more reliably, autocrats bring disorder, they argued. The disorder under which Americans are now suffering, the ramifications of which have only just begun to be realized, is what inevitably happens when an American president disregards the rule of law, insisting that he is limited only by his own sense of moralitya sense of morality that in this case does not quite seem to exist."

"But we will repeat ourselves nonetheless: Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified for the office of the presidency, himself a man with no sense of integrity or administrative acumen, and one who is lazy, vain, ignorant, and vulnerable to flattery all of which make him easy to manipulate for figures such as Stephen Miller, whose ethnonationalist obsessions and sophomoric Nietzschean posturing have dominated t"

Events such as the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the manufactured Greenland crisis, Canada’s cozying to China, continued economic uncertainty, and a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell exemplify recent disorder. Autocrats rarely bring the order they promise and more reliably bring disorder. Disorder arises when a president disregards the rule of law and insists he is limited only by his own morality, which here appears absent. Donald Trump lacks integrity and administrative acumen, and his vanity, laziness, ignorance, and susceptibility to flattery make him easy to manipulate by advisers like Stephen Miller, whose ethnonationalist obsessions have shaped policy.

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