Opinion

Quiet Over Trump’s Kennedy Center Grab Risks ‘Capitulation’

SILENCE GIVES CONSENT

“It’s another signal of how an authoritarian leader can use state power to defeat the opposition,” one democracy watchdog tells the Daily Beast.

Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Clift
Opinion
Trump's ambitions for the Kennedy Center.
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Eleanor Clift

Eleanor Clift

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