Trump’s authoritarian mindset can’t handle dissent from his appointees

Defiance from the supreme court and the Federal Reserve chair in one week ... how ever will the US president cope? “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business,” Michael Corleone tells his brother, Sonny, in The Godfather. But for Donald Trump, it’s always personal. And he leaves this week feeling betrayed. First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections. “These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform. “They are merely a shell of their original selves.” Continue reading...

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