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Comment by throw-the-towel

3 hours ago

The world hegemon caught doing cynical thing, news at 11.

The world hegemon is currently throwing away its hegemonial power in a series of unforced errors, that's the real news here.

Is the idea here to normalize what the Trump administration is doing as “what any hegemon would do”? As far as I’m aware, the US largely avoided using its power to directly prosecute one man’s personal vendettas?