4/ "What’s striking about Trump’s campaign: un-Trump-like willingness to learn something new: how to be a better authoritarian ruler. His team is studying both what did and didn’t happen during his presidency +gleaning insights from even closer ties w world’s growing network of other rt-wing populist strongmen...
But the paranoid style also fits a presidency that he’s said would be motivated by “retribution” against both his own enemies & the leftist elites despised by his most rabid supporters"
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