1. A heuristic for thinking about Trump: for his political acts best not to see him as a freak but as rooted in history of American right.
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4. There's larger right-wing unease about USA political system that Trump is tapping into. That's why most Republicans still support him
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isn’t it just that u.s. is becoming less white every day?
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which is funny, considering they've actually rigged the political system (gerrymandering) to give them an advantage in the House
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noticed this when disenfranchising blacks was justified by claims black votes were "rigged" by being won by democrat manipulations
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4. Of course, distrust of democracy is as old as democracy itself, but for our present purposes GOP turn started in 1990s.
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6. With election of Bill Clinton in 1992 & changing American demographics, there emerged new wave of anti-democratic thought on the right
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Like Orban, interviewed when he ran and lost: "Hungary cannot lose!" Belief that the nation belongs only to the nativist.
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