Donald Trump's vengeance presidency is also extremely tacky [View all]

Several of the world’s signature mountains are located in countries of one-man rule. I’ve witnessed the pervasive presence of boss men on trips abroad.

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English languish news broadcasts in Kenya would begin with the same nine words: “His Excellency, The President, Daniel Arap Moi, said (or declared, or ordered) today.” The news in Nepal was that King Birenda was touring the western reaches of the Himalayan nation, which borders India and China in south Asia.

How different from our republican traditions and coequal branches of government — or so I thought then. Nowadays, I am not so sure.

The United States has a bossman, a grifter with bad taste who is recasting the government in his image. Donald Trump’s reach extends to culture, architecture and sport, plus the policing of language and purging of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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