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Trump 2.0 is exposing American exceptionalism for what it is – and has always been

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Political norms are the scaffolding of democracy, enforced not by the law, but by a sort of social consensus.

They are not codified, strict mechanisms for regulating political facts such as separation of powers.

Trump ’s order to construct a migrant detention centre in Guantánamo Bay has for years operated outside international law.

This is not to suggest that there is no difference between Trump and his predecessors, or that anyone is under any illusion that the US was a perfect democracy before his arrival on the scene.

But the American dream of prosperity at home and supremacy abroad has long masked a much more cynical and transactional order one that Trump is both exposing and entrenching.

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English

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59

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