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Trump is intoxicated on power and is acting to further enrich himself by securing his own Putin-style, kleptocratic oligarchy.

Looking at the bigger picture, he said that moves towards a more peaceful future need to address the "kleptocratic management of the state".

The United States failed to protect its democracy by putting an autocrat and his larger authoritarian populist movement and cadre of kleptocratic allies in control of its governing institutions — including Congress.

"It is not the United States that threatens Hungary's sovereignty, but rather the kleptocratic ecosystem Minister Rogan has helped to build and direct and that he has benefited from personally."

The lack of an informed citizenry is a perfect predicate for the rise of oligarchic, kleptocratic and authoritarian rule—and the further decline or demise of democratic self-governance.