leaders do not accept the legitimacy of our current political system.

mfidelman
Saturday, January 21, 2017 - 10:37am

Henry Kissinger, of all people, provides the best lens for viewing the new administration.  And Krugman summarized it best (in 2003):

"It seems clear to me that one should regard America's right-wing movement--which now in effect controls the administration [...] as a revolutionary power in Kissinger's sense. That is, it is a movement whose leaders do not accept the legitimacy of our current political system."

Paul Krugman, The Great Unravelling https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Great_Unraveling