Farewell, Washington Post
The oligarchs bend the knee
Most of my readers know that I lived in Turkey for the decade during which Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rose to power and slowly crushed, or arrogated to himself, all of Turkey’s formerly independent centers of power.
When it became clear in 2015 that Donald Trump was a serious political force, I expect that only a very small number of Americans had the response I did, to wit: Not this again. Most Americans saw Trump as something entirely unfamiliar to in their political experience and thus wholly unpredictable. I didn’t.