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Daron Acemogluone of the winners of the competition Nobel Prize in Economics 2024assured from Athens that the second term Donald Trump as president European Union This would be a “more serious threat” to the country’s democratic institutions than during his first term from 2017 to 2021.

“Trump’s first term has nothing to do with what we could have next year. Trump’s second term“Says the economist in an interview he gave to the English weekly The Economist as part of his Sustainable Development Forum in South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, held in Athens and published this Wednesday.

Also, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) noted that, unlike what happened in 2017, now “a group much more united people around Trump.”

“The conflicting grievances within the Trumpist leadership group have strengthened, so I think trump during his second term he will greatest threat“The country’s democratic institutions,” says Acemoglu.

The Turkish American noted that something similar had already been seen during Trump’s first term, when “very partisan judges were appointed, agencies were filled with politically appointed officials to bureaucratic autonomy is under threat“.

The economist warned that he has long argued this point of view. American institutions “are not as strong as is sometimes claimed” and that their structure “has its own weaknesses this can be easily taken advantage of.”

“I don’t think the US will become a military dictatorship (…). But there is a real one opportunity that democratic institutions collapse And the damage will be very difficult to reverse, even if Trump remains in office for only four years,” he stressed.

Regarding Kamala HarrisUS Vice President and Democratic Party candidate in the November 5 presidential election, Acemoglu described her as a “politician”very very skillful who has achieved great success from very humble origins.”

However, he emphasized that “His plans are not very clearand argued that Harris is likely “not showing his hand for strategic reasons” since specific policies may be “more open to criticism»Trump.

In addition, he emphasized that “ Democratic Party lost workers” as voters, which the party “does not acknowledge” and which the American press “doesn’t cover enough.”