David Smith: is the US descending into authoritarianism?

In just over 80 days of Donald Trump’s second administration, the world already seems to have been remade. Even before the tariffs brought economic turmoil, the world watched as legal US residents were deported, and others arbitrarily detained at the border. And now some Australians are questioning whether they should risk travelling to the US at all. The Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, tells Reged Ahmad why experts fear the US is nearing ‘Defcon 1 for our democracy’ You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport