Opinion | Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails

Ezra Klein

The New York Times

Opinion | Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails

Anne Applebaum on how to think about autocracy and authoritarianism in a second Trump term.

The MacGuffin that people are surprised at Trump prioritizing loyalty and thus surrounding himself with incompetent yesmen is a complete abdication of responsibility from Klein and the NYT.

…which is understandable from their world view: they just call balls and strikes. It's not their job to participate in (let alone lead) a public conversation. Which in turn shows how broken our fourth estate has become.