EEurope cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr

If the president’s first term didn’t inoculate the American body politic against tyranny, there is no guarantee that a second dose will workDonald Trump is a despot and the US is a democracy. These things can be true simultaneously but not indefinitely. There is now deadlock in the struggle between a president who would be king and a constitution drafted in repudiation of monarchy. But it is a battle to the death. Tyranny will either break the spirit of the republic or be quelled by it.Since the...