Ideas on Populism, by Bruce Kapferer
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That Trump should inhabit this space [of social media] and make regular use of it indicates a new era of populism as a force of more or less constant pressure on political realities.
Trump: The Point of No Return, by Simon Cooper
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It’s now clear that Trump was not merely full of bluster during campaign mode but intends to realise as many of his promises as possible.
Trump and Disruption?, by Robert Geroux
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There are some ominous points of contact between the ideology of disruption on the one hand, and fascism on the other.
Trump: Nuclear Future?, by Richard Tanter
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Strategically and morally there are only two acceptable positions on nuclear weapons: a commitment to deep arms control and disarmament, or work for the prohibition of nuclear weapons as a prerequisite for their abolition. Trump will oppose both, and in doing so he will increase global support for each.
Trump: Unmitigated, by Neil Maizels
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‘Plug into me, and I will cleanse you of your disaffections—I am the way. And the way is confusion.’ With consummate, and I believe natural, ease he led the flocks to a vast island where frustration and morality vanish: the land of confusion.
Trump: Logician to Rhetorician, by Jon Altman
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Trump’s message is to make America great again. The means to do this, according to him, is to revisit the twentieth-century industrial capitalism that made America ‘great’ before. It is the legacy of this American Dream of bloated materialism and waste that is now choking the planet.
Trump: The Point of No Return, by Simon Cooper
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In this excerpt from the forthcoming editorial of Arena Magazine, Simon Cooper argues that if a genuine alternative to Trump is to appear, liberals and progressives must recognise where their oppositional values come from, and the limits of the settings that produced them. Such settings, premised on global trade and hyper-consumption, are unsustainable for life itself, not merely politically divisive.
Trump: Reality TV, by Andrew Lattas
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Recently, Trump even called the candidates for his future administrative positions ‘final contestants’.