Oh, how nice it would be if Donald Trump appeared before the assembled world in Davos on Wednesday to announce that it was all just a big political performance project. To see how far you can go when you ignore all the rules of the game. To highlight how a US president, in his wealth of power, can use elements of fascist rhetoric, lies, enemy images, blackmail, scapegoating mechanisms and nationalist slogans to unsettle not just a country, but the entire world order.
