It Should Not Have Been a Surprise to Anyone

Garry Kasparov: “As I’ve said for years about Putin, and which applies to other autocratic personalities like Trump: ‘Dictators always lie about what they’ve done, but are often quite plain about what they want to do.’ ‘Trump would never…’ is the new ‘Putin would never…’”

“Such people do and take whatever they can, unless they are stopped. That they don’t always succeed does not mean they were not sincere in their ambitions and won’t keep trying to fulfill them. Trump has only been emboldened by the sycophantic GOP this time around.”