Trump – Jack Hutton

[The Atlantic]: There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

By hutton.jack February 18, 2025Anne Applebaum, Articles, Autocracy, Autocrats, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, Russell Vought, Steve Bannon, The Atlantic, Trump, Trump Administration

How regime change happens in America. By Anne Applebaum, February 13, 2025. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671 Summary of "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing: How Regime Change Happens in…

[Foreign Affairs]: The Path to American Authoritarianism

By hutton.jack February 18, 2025Articles, Autocracy, Foreign Affairs, Republicans, Trump

What Comes After Democratic Breakdown. By Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, February 11, 2025 https://reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/02/11/the-path-to-american-authoritarianism/content.html Summary of "The Path to American Authoritarianism" (full transparency: ChatGPT used here to quickly…

[NYBooks]: The Second Coming

By hutton.jack December 4, 2024Autocracy, Election 2024, Fintan O'Toole, The New York Review of Books, Trump

By Fintan O’Toole Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America. December 5, 2024 issue, written November 7, 2024 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/05/the-second-coming-fintan-otoole/ Excerpts: Biden has been very good…

Gifted article [NYTOpinion]: Putin Sees America Hurtling to Disaster, With Trump at the Wheel

By hutton.jack November 26, 2024Donald Trump, Journalist, Mikhail Zygar, Putin, Russia, Russia, The New York Times, Trump, Vladimir Putin

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opinion/putin-trump-russia-america.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c04.qD0-.NJhyDuy5v_QB&smid=url-share Gifted article [NYTOpinion]: Putin Sees America Hurtling to Disaster, With Trump at the Wheel Guest Essay. By Mikhail Zygar Nov. 19, 2024 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opinion/putin-trump-russia-america.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c04.qD0-.NJhyDuy5v_QB&smid=url-share“ ..to many in the Kremlin, a…

[New Yorker Podcast In The Dark]: Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Future of American War-Crimes Prosecutions

By hutton.jack November 22, 2024In The Dark, Madeleine Baran, Parker Yesko, Pete Hegseth, Reporters, Republicans, The New Yorker, Trump

Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense caught the attention of the In the Dark team. Hegseth, formerly a weekend co-host of “Fox & Friends,” is a…

[NYTimes Gift Article]: Police Report Offers Graphic Details of Sexual Assault Claim Against Hegseth

By hutton.jack November 21, 2024Pete Hegseth, Republicans, The New York Times, Trump

By Sharon LaFraniere November 20-21, 2024 President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary was never charged with a crime and vehemently denied to the police that a sexual encounter…

Podcast [Puck Impolitic]: Impolitic with John Heilemann: Tom Nichols: Incendiary Nominations, Global Conflagrations, & Presidential Pyromania

By hutton.jack November 20, 2024Commentators, Elon Musk, Impolitic, John Heileman, Pete Hegseth, Podcast, Putin, Republicans, Russia, Tom Nichols, Trump, Ukraine

This is worth your while to listen to: Tom Nichols: Incendiary Nominations, Global Conflagrations, & Presidential Pyromania, Impolitic with John Heilemann John is joined by Tom Nichols, professor emeritus of…

On Afghanistan: Trump’s Bullshit.

By hutton.jack October 15, 2024Afghanistan, Election 2024, Trump

https://youtu.be/t2zJHN3p_Uw?si=roY_upQ0UP11azBE On Afghanistan: Let's call bullshit on this mother fucker. "I was getting out with dignity and strength" Bullshit.EVERYthing he says is a lie, half-truth, projection -- Let's take just…