Not to mention any names but some high profile political scientists were once very critical of anyone who described Trump as an authoritarian. I'm wondering if any of them have revised their opinions.
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I think Robin's line was that Trump was weak and represented not a high tide but an ebbing of conservative hegemony - the current situation has not yet disproven that I'd say.
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I think that’s right. But there was never a sense that, **even given that** and perhaps even **because if that**, Trump, in his stupendous corruption, cruelty, ignorance, racism, incompetence, and narcissism represented a grave danger. Especially wedded to the GOP.
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There were others. But Corey Robin was among the worst, because he was doubling down on his position in the 2016 election that it didn't really matter if Trump was elected. Zizek was another, but I wouldn't call him a political scientist.
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Yes - and the idea that Trump was all the fault of the liberals (considered no different from "neoliberals," of course) has taken a deserved beating too. Obama and co. had many failures but to equate them with Trump's is both bad analysis and awful politics
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History's funny. This time it's the liberals who were the premature anti-fascists.
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