Trump and his allies have so undermined the US government that we need a new vocabulary to describe themWords matter. When describing a government, they inevitably carry moral weight.Over the past 16 months, Trump and his appointees have so profoundly undermined the United States government that dif ferent words should be used to describe them than have been used to describe all previous administrations.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now in the US and in the UK Continue reading... ...read more read less