A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan
Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and historian, delivers a chilling assessment of the current state of American democracy, arguing that the authoritarian takeover he warned about in 2016 is now well underway. He contends that Donald Trump, driven by a desire for
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