Trump Disgraces America Every Day

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The conservative movement was destined to produce Trump

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...sm-corey-robin

Was the conservative movement destined to produce someone like Donald Trump?

Corey Robin, a political theorist at Brooklyn College, says yes, and the latest edition of his book The Reactionary Mind is an attempt to prove it. Robin argues that conservatism, from its very beginning, has been a sustained effort to mobilize elites and the masses against what he calls “the emancipation of the lower orders.”

In other words, conservatism has always been a reaction against social progress, especially when that progress means poor and marginalized people asserting their power against entrenched elites. Many people see Trump as an unusual conservative or Republican, but Robin asserts the opposite: Trump is the “most successful practitioner of the mass politics of privilege in contemporary America.”

He’s managed to get millions of voters to vote against their own interests. They’re incredibly ignorant, racist, homophobic, deplorable idiots, but sadly, they vote in droves.