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Trump’s First Term Controlled the Narrative. His Second Commands the Machine.

From Chaos to Command: Trump’s Darker Second Term

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Steward Beckham
Mar 06, 2026
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AI-Generated Image from this orginal image of Trump signing Iran sanctions on Wikimedia Commons.

I’ve been thinking about this more intense sequel we are living through.

I’ve written before that sequels are good when they reveal the systems behind the central conflict. The first Trump term was often experienced as spectacle: cable news chaos, social medi…

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