Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by John Feffer
“Every autocrat needs an enemy who threatens the country, preferably from both sides of the border. Such an enemy can serve as the reason to suspend the rule of law and boost executive power. For Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it’s been the Kurds. For India’s Narendra Modi, it’s been the Muslims. For Russia’s Vladimir Putin, it was first the Chechens, then Alexei Navalny and his followers, and now the Ukrainians. President Donald Trump has built his political career (and, frankly, his entire personality) on the identification of enemies. His presidential run back in 2016 required belittling his rivals in those early Republican primaries …. These days, everything that goes wrong in the United States he blames on former president Joe Biden (who had the temerity [sic] to beat him in the 2020 presidential election) and ‘the ‘radical left’ (which is basically anyone more liberal than Stephen Miller).” (10/09/25)
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