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Trump: the stochastic president?

Trump: the stochastic president?

A first look at Michael Wolff's account of Trump's actions on 6 January

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Jun 28, 2021
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The historian Timothy Mason once described the Nazi regime as "politics without administration". For Hitler's inner circle, he wrote, the traits of systemisation, regularity, and calculability in government were seen as limiting their ability to wield power. 

The regime "characteristically produced both non-policies or evasions... or sudden and drastic d…

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