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I do think it's important for reasons you and I would both appreciate,

which is this sort of cultural dominance, that there's nowhere you can look where I am not the

center of attention and that I do not control. There's a reason why these personalist

emperors, dictators, autocrats do this. It's a way of demonstrating total domination in terms of

bringing opposition to heal.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

When you look at the news today, there is a blizzard of concerning headlines.

It is at least in my book quite clear that Donald Trump is trying to expand his hold over

American society in all kinds of illegitimate ways.

The most recent example which I wrote about on my substack is the investigation by the Department of Justice into jail Powell. It is clearly an

attempt to go after Trump's perceived political enemies and to expand his hold over things like

monetary policy which have traditionally been independent of the will and the whim of the American

President.

Well, I thought this was as good a week as any to talk with one of my old friends about

whether our fears for Trump's influence on America's political system, which we shared when we were getting to

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