Trump Takes Another Page from the Strongman’s Playbook

Stephen Collinson: “Those who worry that Trump is taking the country down an anti-democratic path had more reason for anxiety Thursday when he used two more staples of the strongman’s playbook.”

“Trump aimed his most stinging shot yet at higher education — a rival source of authority, free thought and facts that often clash with his version of reality. And he fueled fears he could enable the kind of corruption that rots democracies with an event that looked a lot like a move to profit from the presidency.”