Supreme Leaders
By Nick Anderson
Wed, Jan 14, 2026 • 6:13 PM
In Trump’s worldview, protest is not a democratic right; it is a political weapon. When dissent harms his adversaries abroad, he calls it courage. When dissent challenges his power at home, he calls it criminality. Democracy is not a value to be defended consistently. It is a prop, deployed when convenient and discarded when it isn’t.
