Nor is there sufficient reason to hope that the disordered and dysfunctional opposition to Trump today will suddenly become more unified and effectiv… - Robert Kagan

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Nor is there sufficient reason to hope that the disordered and dysfunctional opposition to Trump today will suddenly become more unified and effective once Trump takes power. That is not how things work. In evolving dictatorships, the opposition is always weak and divided. That's what makes dictatorship possible in the first place. Opposition movements rarely get stronger and more unified under the pressures of persecution.

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Robert Kagan (born 26 September 1958) is a neoconservative American historian and foreign policy commentator. During the 2016 presidential election, he left the Republican Party, due to the party's nomination of Donald Trump and endorsed Hillary Clinton.

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