Donald Trump’s policies aren’t what won him a majority of voters in the most recent election, or a majority of electoral votes in 2016. More realistically, it was Donald Trump who won the presidency both times. Opinion pieces continue to gloss over this.
Take a recent piece by the great Kathleen Parker at the Washington Post. Writing about Hannah Arendt and her discovery of the “lonely” and “needy” Germans who fell for Hitler, Parker saw the past in the present. In her words, “There’s no denying similarities between this description [Arendt’s] and Trump’s understanding of Americans who felt disenfranchised by globalization, angered by our porous southern border, and the contempt they felt from the media (absolutely justified).” Parker could be persuaded otherwise?
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