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.

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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

The belief in a world with no national borders, in which goods could be produced everywhere and sold anywhere with a minimum of friction, had been a cardinal principle of the neoliberal order. As this belief lost influence, so did the order that it had done so much to bring into being. “Protectionism” had been a dirty word of political economy for

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