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The State of Trump

US President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address showed a man who is stuck, exhausted, and out of options. To move beyond the current system of competitive authoritarianism to full-blown fascism, he must give the country a war that it does not want, and then win – but that is out of his reach.

UZHHOROD – US President Donald Trump is failing at fascism. This was clear in his State of the Union address, which was full of fascist atmospherics but ultimately painted a picture of an exhausted blowhard.

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