Trumpism Against Democracy

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes hard-right policies aligned closely with former President Trump’s “America First” agenda and is designed to eliminate the guardrails that stemmed his authoritarian tendencies in his first term. Project 2025 advocates and plans an unparalleled concentration of presidential power in a Trump second term. It reflects major shifts at Heritage…

Not often is an author forced to reevaluate the conclusions of his own book days after its final submission, yet that is exactly what happened to me in the winter of 2021. My book, Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism, came out in October of that year, but I had completed the writing…

I grew up in New Jersey and working in NYC, then I move to NY-Long Island with my wife to raise our kids. This was in the eighties and early nineties. Depending on whether I used a bus or the train, I had to go through terminals. I also walked through subway stations, in NYC,…

It might seem curious that Trump spent a valuable Sunday of campaign time before the election at a rally the middle of a city and a state that he has no chance of winning.  MAGA Republicanism has never been about building out a broad coalition so much solidifying a hard kernel of passionate anger and…