
Timothy Stafford: Four historical parallels that help understand Trump
America’s long democratic history provide a few guides for navigating the reign of the ‘unprecedented President’.
Timothy Stafford is a Research Fellow with Pacific Forum-CSIS, and a former Parliamentary Researcher to Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
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To say that Trump’s nominee doesn’t fit the traditional profile is an understatement.
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