A ballroom bunker is a perfect symbol for Trump 2.0 | Jan-Werner Müller

The edifice suggests a Silicon Valley-style desire to protect the president from national crises of his own making A self-declared “secretary of war” keeps committing war crimes; people are dying in Africa because of Musk’s cuts to USAid; farm bankruptcies in the US are surging; ICE keeps acting with impunity; measles is spreading … and we are worried about a ballroom? The ballroom is not just the president’s peculiar obsession, but a symbol for many of the character of Trump 2.0: the unprece...

By Jan-Werner Müller