Trumpism inherited and doubled down on half the FDR era Democratic coalition, ie Dixiecrats and blue collar whites, so it's silly to claim it descended exclusively from, say, Edmund Burke, or even Bill Buckley and Barry Goldwater.
Not to mention that lots of Trumpists voted for Obama. Twice. Chronic messianism, much?
Trumpism inherited and doubled down on half the FDR era Democratic coalition, ie Dixiecrats and blue collar whites, so it's silly to claim it descended exclusively from, say, Edmund Burke, or even Bill Buckley and Barry Goldwater.
Not to mention that lots of Trumpists voted for Obama. Twice. Chronic messianism, much?
Anyway, Trumpism in America is like Peronism in Argentina. In fact, it looks as if American political culture is becoming a lot like Argentinian political culture. Has Peronism in Argentina been permanently dispensed with thanks to the recent fortuitous victory of Javier Milei? I wouldn't bet on it. Ditto, Trumpism in America if Harris wins this round.
BTW, it ironically took a military coup to displace Peron the first time, and he still came back twenty years later.
In 2017, I proposed the Trump-Peron comparison to a colleague from Argentina. He said he didn't see it. But two years later he told me he had changed his mind - that Trump did resemble Peron.
Trumpism inherited and doubled down on half the FDR era Democratic coalition, ie Dixiecrats and blue collar whites, so it's silly to claim it descended exclusively from, say, Edmund Burke, or even Bill Buckley and Barry Goldwater.
Not to mention that lots of Trumpists voted for Obama. Twice. Chronic messianism, much?
Anyway, Trumpism in America is like Peronism in Argentina. In fact, it looks as if American political culture is becoming a lot like Argentinian political culture. Has Peronism in Argentina been permanently dispensed with thanks to the recent fortuitous victory of Javier Milei? I wouldn't bet on it. Ditto, Trumpism in America if Harris wins this round.
BTW, it ironically took a military coup to displace Peron the first time, and he still came back twenty years later.
In 2017, I proposed the Trump-Peron comparison to a colleague from Argentina. He said he didn't see it. But two years later he told me he had changed his mind - that Trump did resemble Peron.