Inspired by this @jonathanchait piece, a taxonomy of anti-Trump theories of what Trump represents:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/anybody-fighting-joe-biden-now-is-helping-trumps-next-coup.html …
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1. Trump is a literal fascist, leading a fascist movement, and the US is in Italy-in-the-20s situation at least if not a Germany-in-the-30s emergency. (the implication of the recent Kagan essay among many other takes)
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2. Trump is not a '30s fascist, but he is a Viktor Orban figure, well positioned to turn the US into a pseudo-democracy in which his faction and its allies consolidate political, economic and cultural power. (Chait, as I take him)
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3. Trump is a 19th-century-style political adventurer whose amoral ambition, joined to GOP alienation and paranoia, could throw the US into an 1876-style constitutional crisis in a super-close election. (the thrust of everyone worrying about rogue election officials in 2024)
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or maybe 4. Trump is a symptomatic figure rather than a casual agent, an avatar of a post-modern moment where a gridlocked political system is vulnerable to leadership styles based on performative authoritarianism unbacked by real action.
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