In 2021, Ferguson described Trump as a ‘demagogue and would-be tyrant’. A recent interview with the Times gives some insight into how Ferguson and others have learned to stop worrying and love the Donald. The storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 is the biggest obstacle to any conversion to a pro-Trump position. And, as many historians and social scientists have been saying, the norms and institutions of ‘the system’ are not self-reinforcing. As Daniel Drezner has pointed out, there is little evidence that Trump’s different threats concerning North and South Korea yielded much.

Source: The Times January 17, 2025 17:37 UTC