
An American Catastrophe
Trump’s second term will devastate democracy, erode global norms, and deepen the consequences of America’s collective folly.
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Jan T. Gross, Emeritus Professor of War and Society and Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton University, is the author, most recently, of Golden Harvest (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Trump’s second term will devastate democracy, erode global norms, and deepen the consequences of America’s collective folly.

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