Week 50 - The Return

Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you'll remember.

This week Trump ordered the demolition of the White House East Wing, which seems an apt metaphor for the state of our democracy. He has assumed unbridled and unprecedented power, and is acting on his worst impulses, while sycophants throw millions his way in an attempt to curry favor.

Trump is very publicly pursuing his enemies using the apparatus of fed…