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"Any of these vectors of global change - environmental, economic, political, geopolitical - by themselves would suggest that far from being a culmination, 2020 is merely a moment in a process of escalation. Taken together, they form a dynamic parallelogram that makes de-escalation hard if not impossible to imagine. The great acceleration continues."

"Fortunately for the EU, Trump's analogues in Europe were in a weak position. Hungary and Poland needed the EU's money."

"Between November 2020 and January 2021, the United States lived through a profound national political crisis. The only other Western nation to experience anything similar was the UK. Brexit and Trump's presidency were born together in 2016. There was a painful symmetry about their ending together too."