Think you know how bad Trump unleashed will be? Look at the evidence: it will be even worse | Jonathan Freedland
The last time was awful, but now that seems a mere dress rehearsal. From a public health crisis to the end of Nato, the threats are clear
Are you ready for Trump unbound? You may have thought the former and future president was already pretty unrestrained, not least because Donald Trump has never shown anything but brazen disrespect for boundaries or limits of any kind. And you would be right. But, as an earlier entertainer turned president – and Trump combines the two roles – liked to say: You ain’t seen nothing yet.
That’s because the 47th president will enter the Oval Office free of almost all constraints. He will be able to do all that he promised and all that he threatened, with almost nothing and no one to stand in his way.
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist
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