The Persistence of Trumpism

In today’s politics, Donald Trump supporters praise him as welcome relief to what they consider failed politics and policies.  Trump opponents see him as narrow minded and intemperate.  But there’s more.  In a December 2023 national poll, 51 percent of the respondents agreed that Trump would be “a threat to democracy if he is elected…

All too often, pundits depict Trump and Trumpism as a unique expression of political extremism, but Trumpism is not entirely unique. When the defining characteristics of his campaign were made public in 2016, Trump and Trumpism began to amplify forms of hate and violence that were pre-existing in the political culture of the United States. …