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Trumpism

  • Issue 55
  • Fall 2024
“Stalin is left standing and wins; I fall and lose. History only concerns itself with victors and the volume of their conquests; triumph justifies everything. The French Revolution is studied for its outcomes, while those who died with the guillotine are relegated to the obituaries.”
— Benito Mussolini, “Last Testament” (1945)

“The chief economist of Moody’s Analytics estimated in 2019 that, a year in, Trump’s tariffs had cost the United States $88 billion and 340,000 jobs.”

Features

Doug Henwood

Trumponomics

What kind of economic policy could we expect from a second Trump term?

Dustin Guastella

The Right Without Wrong

For decades, liberals have hoped for the de-Christianization of the American Right. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

Anton Jäger

Michel Houellebecq: The Unhappy Oracle

Michel Houellebecq’s chronicles of modern discontent have made him one of the most renowned writers of the century as well as a far-right prophet. Yet liberalism’s fiercest critic still hasn’t found his alternative future.

“Even rich Trumpians and Tories will hype up their supposed working-class backgrounds.”

Front Matters

Party Lines

Struggle Session

“The far right sees something deeply appealing in the mobster: he’s a violent but paternalistic form of uncontrolled power that operates outside the state.”

“It was the transformation of the onetime strongman into a cuddly grandpa figure that won the election.”

“Trump is and forever will be one thing: a multigenerational real estate schmuck.”

“Working-class voters are consistently more progressive on economic issues than their “enlightened” middle- and upper-class counterparts.”