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Finally, signs of life in the Democrats

Gavin Newsom breaks free from Michelle Obama's sanctimonious decree

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Latika M Bourke
Aug 29, 2025
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One of the biggest surprises of the second Trump Administration is not MAGA’s assault on the institutions and the abuse of the military to assert domestic control, but the lack of resistance to America’s slide towards illiberalism, if not authoritarianism.

US President Donald Trump is doing much of what he said.

‘Promises made, promises kept,’ is one of …

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