"Twelve months of dizzying authoritarianism followed that inauguration. The crossing of one unthinkable Rubicon after another without time to look back. A year in which the entire world has witnessed the deterioration perhaps irreparable of one of its oldest democracies, always at the mercy of the unpredictable mind of the most powerful man on the planet, who also happens to be one of the most capricious."
"lurching from one mood swing to another, threats, a climate of vengeance, exaggerations and lies, insults and tasteless jokes, almost always posted on Truth, his social media platform. And it has done so with only one certainty: as he himself admitted last week in an interview, the only limit to his power at the helm of an empire threatened by China is not institutional decorum or the manners that used to govern traditional politics, but his own morality."
January 20 marks one year of Donald Trump's second presidency, characterized by rapid authoritarianism and repeated breaches of democratic norms. The administration has crossed multiple unthinkable Rubicons, producing global concern over potential irreparable deterioration of U.S. democracy. Governance has been driven by the unpredictable and capricious temperament of the president, with policy and rhetoric often appearing as mood swings, threats, vengeance, exaggerations and lies communicated through Truth. The president admitted that only his own morality limits his power. After refusing to accept the 2020 defeat and inciting the Capitol attack, he regrouped with loyalists and leveraged institutional apathy to pursue an expanded authoritarian agenda.
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