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The Trump administration is pursuing a relatively cohesive vision aimed at redirecting the U.S. onto a fundamentally more conservative, inwardlooking, and less democratic trajectory.

Read the full analysis from Thomas Carothers on @foreignpolicy.com👇
Actually, Trump Has a Coherent Vision
What seems like chaos is in fact a unified plan to reshape the United States.
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June 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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EFTA01169316 | EFTA01169347 32 Orthodox Jewish and second-generation Russian populations increasing much faster than other groups. The Israel of the next 30 years is likely to be more divided, less productive, more inwardlooking and more hawkish than it is today — but without the financial means and unquestioning sense of duty that inspired young people to defend their homeland by force of arms. Recent mass protests against inequality and the cost of middle-class living also suggest that the social solidarity that has prevailed hitherto could break down. In such circumstances, it must be asked how much longer Israel can maintain the unity it has always presented against what it terms the "existential threat". An Israel whose borders are leaky, which is surrounded by states that are at once chaotic and assertive, and whose citizens are less able or willing than they were to fight, could face real serious questions about its viability. The choice then might be between a fortress state, explicitly protected by nuclear weapons, and a state so weak that association, or federation, with the burgeoning independent Palestine would become plausible: the so-called onestate solution by other means. In either event, those with other options — the younger, more educated, more cosmopolitan sections of the population — might well seek their future elsewhere, leaving the homeland of their ancestors' dreams a husk of its former self. The emotive call, "Next year in Jerusalem" would be the wistful vestige of a noble ambition overtaken by cruel demographic and geopolitical reality. Maly Dejevsky has worked as a foreign correspondent all over the world, including Washington, Paris and Moscow. She is now the chief editorial writer and a columnist at The Independent and regularly appears on radio and television. EFTA01169347
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EFTA01197540 | EFTA01197555 booze, that some US states are far more "tight" — meaning that they "have many strongly enforced rules and little tolerancefor deviance." Others, meanwhile, are more "loose," meaning that they "have few strongly enforced rules and greater tolerance for deviance." The to tightest states? Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The to loosest, meanwhile, are California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Vermont. (Notice a pattern here?) The to tightest states? Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, and North Carolina. (Notice a pattern here?) Harrington and Gelfand measure a state's tightness or looseness based on indicators such as the legality of corporal punishment in schools, the general severity of legal sentences, access to alcohol and availability of civil unions, level of religiosity, and the percent of the population that is foreign. But really, that's just the beginning of their analysis. After identifying which states are "tighter" and which are more "loose," the researchers then trace these different outlooks to a range of ecological or historical factors in the states' pasts (and in many cases, lingering into their presents). For as the authors write, tighter societies generally have had to deal with "a greater number of ecological and historical threats, including fewer natural resources, more natural disasters, a greater incidence of territorial threat, higher population density, and greater pathogen prevalence." That applies nicely to the United States. The "tight" states, it turns out, have higher death rates from heat, storms, floods, and lightning. (Not to mention tornadoes.) They also have higher rates of death from influenza and pneumonia, and higher rates of HIV and a number of other diseases. They have higher child and infant mortality. And then there's external threat: The South, in the Civil War, was defending its own terrain and its own way of life. Indeed, the researchers show a very strong correlation between the percentage of slave-owning families that a state had in the year 186o, and its "tightness" measurement today. It makes psychological sense, of course, that regions facing more threats would be much more inwardlooking and tougher on deviants, because basically, they had to buckle down. They didn't have the luxury of flowery art, creativity, and substance abuse. Tight states have higher incarceration and execution rates and "lower circulation of pornographic magazines." Still not done, Harrington and Gelfand also show that their index of states "tightness" and "looseness" maps nicely on to prior analyses of the differing personalities of people living in different US states. Citizens of "tight" states tend to be more "conscientious," prizing order and structure in their lives. Citizens of "loose" states tend to be more "open," wanting to try new things and have new experiences. EFTA01197555
May 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Thanks for this great article.
Under trump's auspiciën cultural life and cultural progression will shrink. Leading to a bloodless, repetitive inwardlooking civilisation where nothing new emerges. In a decade his name will be spit upon by everyone.
April 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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India must brace for a more protectionist world! 🛡️ Govt needs to act fast to shield sectors & jobs. Constant vigilance needed post-trade deal too. 🤝 #EconomicStrategy #FutureOfTrade #InwardLooking
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM