"No powerful political actor had set out to destroy the American political system itself — until, that is, Trump won the Republican nomination. He was probably the first major party nominee who ran not for president but for autocrat. And he won."
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Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead (US)/Granta (UK), 2020), p. 119
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