President Donald Trump has come closer this week than at perhaps any point in his presidency to reproducing, in appearance if not in form, some of the same traits of the strongmen rulers for whom he has long expressed admiration.The man who praised President Vladimir Putin's "very strong control
President Donald Trump has come closer this week than at perhaps any point in his presidency to reproducing, in appearance if not in form, some of the same traits of the strongmen rulers for whom he has long expressed admiration.
And after long admiring the pomp and regalia of military leaders and military parades, Trump this week marched across Lafayette Park in Washington flanked by senior Defense Department officials. One of them, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, separately referred to cities as “the battle space.” Another, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, strolled among the soldiers securing Washington’s downtown street corners while in battle fatigues.
But, Levitsky added, “whether that will work for Trump or not, well, it’s a very different context in the United States.”Psychological research finds that, under certain conditions, when a threat feels chaotic and uncontrolled, some people will not only tolerate but desire extreme steps by the government to reimpose order and forcibly control whoever is perceived as the source of the danger.
Where this goes to extremes, Pepinsky added, is when people do not just tolerate force as a regrettable necessity but also “feel real pleasure in seeing the capital-O ‘other’ being put down and controlled.” In another echo of the leaders he has praised, Trump, far from presenting his deployment of troops and his threat to overrule governors as regrettable necessities, has held them up as shows of strength.
So does, she added, “the suggestion that you would make civilian authorities inside the United States subordinate to the military, rather than vice versa.”
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