This piece is as lucid as it is ominous: "[...] we may already have experienced what amounts to a 21st-century coup. There may not be tanks in the streets, but effective control of the government may already have slipped out of the hands of elected officials."
@pkrugman.bsky.socialComplacency about the Musk/Trump administration has been a self-defeating prophecy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Trump Is Doing Exactly What He Said He Would. Who Could Have Predicted That?
Maybe the oligarchs deserve what’s coming. But the rest of us don’t.