How This Ends: What Ten Revolutions Teach Trump's America

The fall comes slowly, and then faster than anyone expected. A European's reading of where America stands today.

May 31, 2026

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This is the tenth and final part of The Fall. It is time to answer the question those Americans asked on a Portuguese trail in March 2026, the question that started this series: how does this end?

I have spent nine installments looking at how authoritarian regimes have ended elsewhere. Portugal 1974. The Philippines 1986. East Germany and Czechoslovakia …

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