If you were a foreign agent that was elected to executive office, what would you do to make America weaker, poorer, sicker, less educated, more divided, friendless, unstable, and more illiberal than ever before?
Like, what would it take to turn America into Viktor Orban’s Hungary or Putin’s Russia or Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil or Narendra Modi’s India or Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador?
Posted May 2, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC
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