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MAGA, from Middle America to the new right

One of the great ironies regarding the figure of Donald Trump is his positioning on the conventional notion of the political spectrum. While the current president appears to be extreme in many ways, the reality is that in both of his…

Chaos theory in power

Most revolutionaries have some idea of a replacement for the institutions they topple. And, surely, some in Donald Trump’s orbit do. (For a good summary, see the just-published summary of this agenda, by David Graham, The Project: How…