I think it's a very interesting piece that raises questions of how tightly you want historical analogies to bind, a sort of lumper/splitter debate for drawing connections between historical figures and movements
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There are a few real howlers in there and Riley's essay would have benefited from some engagement with, say, the work of
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One thing it has caused me to reflect on is how so much of the "What is Trump" discussion is carried on within the left. Have there been efforts on the right to situate Trump in a reasonably rigorous historical way?
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the right seems just profoundly intellectually debauched at this moment. aside from a few ignored heterodox folks, it's just ressentiment and cynical agitprop all the way down
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That's what it looks like to me also, but I also know that I read ecumenically on the left but very little on the right. Maybe American Affairs did something that I don't know about, for example?
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don't suppose my timeline is the right place to ask either. but there must be some trump-curious historians out there. what do they think? he's like Andrew Jackson, and that's good? or he's like George Wallace, and George Wallace was good?
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Do you read Modern Age -- maybe the best journal of the paleo-con right? They've pursued the Jackson lineage.
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I don't. Does a essay particular come to mind?
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I thought this was suggestive:https://home.isi.org/future-american-rabble …
More broadly, worth looking at various other pieces by @ToryAnarchist in general sees Trump as true heir of Nixon & Reagan, which I think is right.
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