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Darren Barany

The Center Needs to Fall Apart: The Democratic Party, Class, Solidarity, and the Failure to Confront Trumpism

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Donald Trump won the election, and at the time I’m writing this, he’s been president for nearly six months. The Democratic Party has failed in taking this opportunity to incorporate an authentic, sustainable, and grassroots political opposition to MAGA and Trump. The party is still licking its wounds from November. It’s reeling from abysmally low…

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Explaining ‘Cult45’: What Can WWII-Era Research on Authoritarianism Tell Us about the Political Rise of Trump?

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Introduction Since the election, much writing and discussion has been dedicated to making sense of the political rise of Trump and Trumpism. It’s not easy to make sense of his journey from a marginal, garish, Know Nothing, hate-spewing reality TV personality to, well, those things, except he’s no longer marginal and, as of January 20,…

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