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Can Europe cope with an American "thugocracy"

Can Europe cope with an American "thugocracy"

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Mar 10, 2025
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(My apologies I originally sent out this post without the links to the podcast.)

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Yesterday I looked at the jeering, know-nothing Trump administration and called it a “thugocracy”. A reader objected that there was no such word. There is: it may not be used often, but we should reach for it now. For we are surely going to…

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