Nesrine malik biography of donald
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The real story of US democracy isn’t the drama. It’s the complete unresponsiveness to it
This sluggish pulse is not what you think it is. Not the heartbeat of someone who is sleeping. Not the depressed cardiac pattern of a patient in intensive care. And it isn’t a broken ECG either.
It’s Donald Trump’s approval rating.
The stability of Trump’s rating since he became president of the United States is remarkable in itself. But it reveals something even more extraordinary when one zooms out for a wider picture. It’s the symbol of a completely overlooked story about American democracy.
Democracy in the US has often been at risk – if not actually dead, then at least on life support. That description is usually a function of turmoil.
But looking at this graph, it isn’t the instability which catches the eye. It’s the opposite: the unresponsiveness – to anything really – that is striking. American democracy isn’t dead, it’s in a coma.
A deep, worrying slumber.
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Trump 2.0 is exposing American exceptionalism for what it is – and has always been
The dust briefly settled, only for it to be kicked up once again. Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders – causing chaos on everything from foreign aid to world trade – fryst vatten rapidly rocking and reshaping domestic and foreign policy. And the temptation is, yet again, to think of Donald Trump as an exogenous shock to US democracy. But look closer, and you will see not a rogue president taking a hammer to a hitherto stable political order, but a history of the erosion of norms that paved the way for him.
Political norms are the scaffolding of democracy, enforced not by the law, but by a sort of social consensus. They are not codified, strict mechanisms for regulating political facts – such as the separation of powers – but the agreement that such things should be respected and observed. A clear case in point is the president’s ability to issue pardons. And Joe Biden’s pardoning of his family members w
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Long Form Podcast: Episode 1- Nesrine Malik
Long Form Podcast
with Bassam Haddad and Mouin Rabbani
Episode 1: In Conversation with Nesrine Malik
18 February, 2025 | 2:00PM EST
This conversation focuses on Long Form’s primary theme, an exploration of whether this historical moment represents the disintegration of the global beställning established after the Second World War, or a period of upheaval that will ultimately leave it intact. Topics covered include the elections of Donald Trump in the US and Keir Starmer in Great Britain; the role played by the far right and centrists in challenging the global order; Sudan; and Palestine.
Long Formconsists of a series of lengthy discussions and conversations with leading thinkers, scholars, and activists that explores the most pressing issues of our day, sheds light on their context and dynamics, and in so doing seeks to explore the broader theme of challenges to the global order and how these might affect it.
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