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Jan-Werner Müller

Jan-Werner Müller

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Aspiring autocrats like Trump are always more dangerous the second time in office

Aspiring autocrats like Trump are always more dangerous the second time in office
07.02.2025 80

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

Oligarchs are more visible than ever. That also makes them more vulnerable

Oligarchs are more visible than ever. That also makes them more vulnerable
22.01.2025 20

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

Jimmy Carter’s life after the presidency set a bar that few others have followed

Jimmy Carter’s presidency has been etched into historical memory as a failure. That judgment is curious, particularly when it comes from American...

30.12.2024 20

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

Why has the American center right disappeared from the ballot box?

The blame game’s in full swing. Armchair campaign strategists just know that Kamala Harris should have thrown Joe Biden under the bus, or gone on...

09.11.2024 10

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

What if Trump’s campaign is cover for a slow-motion coup?

Whatever happens next, one day historians will have to explain why a candidate who earlier this year had been presented as disciplined started to...

04.11.2024 10

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

No, Trump is not a fascist. But that doesn’t make him any less dangerous

Trump’s former chief of staff has just confirmed the ex-president is a fascist. The former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff went on record...

29.10.2024 10

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

The US right keeps accusing Democrats of ‘communism’. What does that even mean?

The Trump campaign, flanked by an army of online trolls commanded by Elon Musk, has been struggling to settle on an attack line against the...

05.09.2024 70

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

Germany’s hard-right architecture

31.08.2024 3

New Statesman

Jan-Werner Müller

JD Vance is the baby of big tech and big oil. He’s no ‘working-class populist’

Initially hailed as an inspired choice to inherit the Maga movement, James David Vance has fast proved a liability to the Trump campaign: Democrats...

01.08.2024 10

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

Trump is an authoritarian who must not win. Saying that is not inciting violence

The horrific attempt to assassinate Donald Trump – and reactions to it – created a kind of X-ray of our body politic. It demonstrates how,...

16.07.2024 60

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller