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Gideon Rachman

Why the MAGA faithful could bring down Trump

The president is entering new and dangerous territory as he pushes ahead with inflation-raising tariffs that could hit US consumers.

Donald Trump is the MAGA movement’s greatest asset and its greatest liability.

The US president is a political genius. But he is also, in the memorable phrase attributed to Rex Tillerson, his first secretary of state, “a f---ing moron” when it comes to understanding policy.

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Gideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.

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