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Which courtier will win?

My latest print magazine piece, on the dynamics around well-branded policy-setting in Trump 2.0, is on The Court of the Sun King:

Major matters of international policy are decided according to what you can get Elon Musk to tweet. The whim of a middling tech bro can turn into a news cycle and an internal communications memo to all-staff on a congressional…