Donald Trump, Putin’s submissive client, is a hero of negative freedom, wealthy through undertaxed inheritance and comfortable denying everything. In 2018 he traveled to Helsinki and told the world that he trusted a Russian dictator more than his American advisers. In 2019 he tried to bully an elected Ukrainian president to get dirt on his rival in the coming presidential election. When Trump lost the election of 2020, he lied about the outcome and tried to stage a coup d’état to stay in power. Despite a constitutional ban on insurrectionists holding office, he purports to be running for
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