The Guardian

The language of the American presidency doesn’t apply to Trump (opens in new tab)

Trump and his allies have so undermined the US government that we need a new vocabulary to describe themWords matter. When describing a government, they inevitably carry moral weight.Over the past 16 months, Trump and his appointees have so profoundly undermined the United States government that different words should be used to describe them than have been used to describe all previous administrations.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at t...

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