[IRR] Brooks: Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good?
In each of Trump’s three beliefs—that free trade and open borders were harming America, that America should privilege its people of European descent, and that America’s true strength lay in its professional wrestling heartland far more than in the aspirations of America’s coastal elites—we can see an incipient attack on America’s neoliberal order.
... See moreGary Gerstle • The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
The Reagan/Buckley style of conservatism won elections and dominated the Republican Party for many years. Trumpism demonstrates the extent to which Reagan/Buckley fusionist conservatism was a temporary and fragile settlement that masked the enduring id of old-fashioned American conservatism, including the Hard Right fringe, and today’s New Right
... See moreLaura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
Inside the Trump machine: the bizarre psychology of America’s newest political movement Gwynn Guilford 4.1.2016
1. Hitler’s melancholia-paranoia-megolamania rhetorical style, and Trump’s class kinship (he says what they believe & gives them permission to be themselves.)
2. Roger Money-Kyrle: The people seemed gradually to lose their individuality... See more
1. Hitler’s melancholia-paranoia-megolamania rhetorical style, and Trump’s class kinship (he says what they believe & gives them permission to be themselves.)
2. Roger Money-Kyrle: The people seemed gradually to lose their individuality... See more