Donald Trump - openDemocracy (Page 11)

Poor us: how collective narcissism powers Trump and Putin’s supporters

Individuals can feel narcissism for their group as well as themselves – and many politicians are succeeding by playing to those feelings

By David Robson

/ 24 Apr 2022

Poor us: how collective narcissism powers Trump and Putin’s supporters

Why Bolsonaro may want to think twice about Putin’s support

As Brazil’s elections loom, President Bolsonaro finds himself behind in the polls and isolated internationally. Can Russia help his campaign?

By Manuella Libardi

/ 3 Apr 2022

Why Bolsonaro may want to think twice about Putin’s support

Is American democracy on the brink of collapse?

Political violence, surging ethnonationalism, economic stagnation: the US today resembles the Soviet Union just before it fell

By Chrissy Stroop

/ 28 Jan 2022

Is American democracy on the brink of collapse?

Stop separating ‘good’ Christians from Trump supporters

A year on from the Capitol Hill riots, US democracy is still under attack – and the media’s misunderstanding of religious values isn’t helping

By Chrissy Stroop

/ 6 Jan 2022

Stop separating ‘good’ Christians from Trump supporters

The US must safeguard voting or risk a full-blown constitutional crisis

Everybody knows what happened a year ago at the Capitol but we lack an understanding of ongoing threats to our democracy

By Laleh Ispahani

/ 6 Jan 2022

The US must safeguard voting or risk a full-blown constitutional crisis

Liberal fecklessness: The US is on a precipice and time is running out

A year on from the Capitol riots, the failure of Democrats to protect American democracy could return Trump to the White House

By Scott Remer

/ 6 Jan 2022

Liberal fecklessness: The US is on a precipice and time is running out

The end of closed democracy?

The forces that have assembled behind Biden can end racism and exclusion everywhere

By Anthony Barnett

/ 20 Mar 2021

Six ways Donald Trump can still be brought to justice

The impeachment trial may have failed, but the former president has multiple legal battles ahead of him

By Laurie Macfarlane and Aaron White

/ 13 Feb 2021

Six ways Donald Trump can still be brought to justice

Will Trump’s anti-abortion Geneva Consensus fall apart?

The pro-choice Biden administration is very unlikely to support the declaration, signed just two weeks before the 2020 US elections.

By Kerry Cullinan

/ 25 Jan 2021

This is American fascism

Like Mussolini’s March on Rome and Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, Donald Trump’s Insurrection is the beginning of years of street violence.

By Louie Dean Valencia-García

/ 14 Jan 2021

US is paying for letting dark money and disinformation run riot

Billionaires such as Charles Koch spent a fortune convincing ordinary Americans to doubt everything - they shouldn't be surprised that violence and division has followed

By Peter Geoghegan

/ 11 Jan 2021

US is paying for letting dark money and disinformation run riot

The good, the bad, and the ugly of the US Capitol insurrection

The scenes of the insurrection in the United States Capitol last Wednesday, January 6, will go down in history as the moment when the oldest and most ‘exceptional’ democracy in the world trembled.

By Daniela Sánchez

/ 8 Jan 2021

Jan 6, 2021; Washington, DC, USA; A person holds up a noose displayed in front of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.