Donald Trump speaks on the phone in front of a portrait of Andrew Jackson on January 28, 2017.(AP Photo / Alex Brandon)
The “new normal” of daily disasters for the White House make Trump more dangerous and irrational, Sasha Abramsky says, and more likely to adopt fascistic tactics.
Plus: conservatives argue that the courts have gone too far in rejecting Trump’s travel ban as an unconstitutional attack on Muslims—David Cole of the ACLU responds.
And Paul Mason analyzes the British elections in the wake of Trump’s troubled trip to Europe.
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