Annie Pforzheimer, a former acting deputy assistant secretary of state for Afghanistan and a deputy chief of mission in Kabul, is a non-resident associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Within his first month back in the White House, Donald Trump has upended US foreign policy and launched an all-out assault on the country’s constitutional order. With US institutions bowing or buckling as the administration takes executive power to unprecedented extremes, the establishment of an authoritarian regime cannot be ruled out.
