Opinion: This is the dark, unspoken promise of Trump’s return

Trump and his supporters have shown tremendous hostility to civic institutions. He will likely begin by getting rid of experts, regulators and other civil servants he sees as superfluous, eliminating jobs that he thinks simply shouldn’t exist.

Around the world, populist autocrats have leveraged the thrilling power of that promise to transform their countries into vehicles for their own singular will, M. Gessen writes. (Shoshana Schultz/The New York Times)