Pundits, commentators, penny-ante prognosticators all talk with certainty about the mixture of voters who sent Donald J. Trump, a gaudy real-estate developer, to the White House. Yet most can't pinpoint who composed this group of Americans who were willing to roll the dice on an unknown compared to someone as politically familiar – too familiar, even – as Hillary Clinton.
Trump voters are described in various amorphous terms, not all of which are friendly: working class, nationalist, rural, populist, provincial, anti-globalist, immigration skeptics, racist dissidents. It's also unclear what kind of president Trump will end up being. Will he be, in the parlance of political scientist Stephen Skowronek, reconstructive in the vein of Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, permanently reforming his party? Or will Trump be merely disjunctive, signaling the end of the last regime but failing to unite the disparate strands of interests that put him in office?
It's hard to say. Trump's governing style lacks predictability. That's because his philosophical core is, at best, inchoate. Trump himself may not fully comprehend the larger picture formed by his beliefs – an attribute not unfamiliar to most Americans.
A cottage industry has formed around explaining what Trumpism is and isn't. But many of these tracts, which are sold for inflated prices at airport bookstores, focus on the man, not what he represents compared to the current political order.
Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony just took a big intellectual leap forward in developing a social system close to what Trump voters may be seeking. In the current state of things, both Democrat and Republican, and their party congeners – greenie, libertarian, democratic socialist – hold fast to the principles of liberalism. And by liberalism, I don't mean generic Democratic policies. In this case, it's liberalism qua liberalism – individual equality, consensual exchange, the supremacy of reason.
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[–] Drunkenst 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
the clingers, the toothless, the deplorables.