What Trump Has in Common With the Far Left
If the president fears communism, maybe he should stop mimicking its worst elements.
Jonathan Chait
Jonathan Chait is a staff writer at The Atlantic writing about American politics and policy. He is the author of The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America (2007) and Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail (2017). Before joining The Atlantic, he spent 16 years at The New Republic, followed by 13 years at New York.
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