Source: Yascha Mounk
by Yascha Mounk
“The best way to understand Donald Trump’s administration, Ivan Krastev told me a month ago, is as a ‘revolutionary government in the form of an imperial court.’ And the most important thing about revolutionary governments is that they quickly develop an unstoppable dynamic of their own, one in which the logic of events pushes its originators to ever more radical actions which they themselves might not have anticipated taking a few months or weeks ago. ‘You’re not running the revolution,’ Krastev remarked with his inimitable lucidity, ‘the revolution is running you.’ In no field of public policy is this insight more applicable than in the administration’s attacks on some of the country’s — and the world’s — most eminent universities.” (05/23/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/trumps-assault-on-harvard-is-an-astonishing