In the early 90s, the counter-revolutionaries still existed mostly on the margins of mainstream politics, and Buchanan did not win the Republican nomination.
Today, the lust for militant radicalism is the Right’s defining characteristic.
Weekend Reading: I wrote about the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful new book “When the Clock Broke”
The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present.
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