We mustn’t confuse the present US regime with those of the recent past, and especially with the ‘Neo-Con’ one behind George W Bush. The following article in next month’s The Atlantic magazine by David Frum, a leading conservative commentator and speechwriter for GW, should point the difference. It’s a devastating analysis of the Trump phenomenon and the dangers it presents to American democracy, and all the more enlightening in view of its provenance. Highly recommended.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/

If Trump is toppled, it may be from this quarter, rather than by the Democrats.