National Populism Challenges Right as Well as Left
Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 president election outraged Democrats and delighted Republicans. Progressives have been tempted to console themselves with congenial fantasies or to sink into despair and blame the voters for their ignorance and vulgarity. Conservatives have been inclined to believe that the scales have fallen from the people's eyes, that the right's electoral dominance is secure, and that voters have given them a mandate to disrupt, shatter, and overturn - dramatically illustrated by President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to justify a raft of hard-hitting...