How to understand the appeal of Trump

Is President Donald Trump doing serious damage to America's reputation on the world stage?

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Donald Trump: a rabble-rouser hobbled by democracy
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A year into Donald Trump's presidency, the world has "not gone over a cliff", says Roger Cohen in Der Spiegel. But the fact that the avoidance of nuclear war with North Korea must be considered an achievement is "testimony to how alarming" Trump's "erratic belligerence" has been. His victory last November reflected a "blow-up-the-system mood" and he continues to behave principally as "the rabble-rousing leader of a mass movement". Rising inequality has invited a jolt to the complacency of a globalised liberal elite. "But the question remains: how dangerous is Trump to the world and the American republic?"

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.