The conservative movement was destined to produce Trump

Posted on AllSides March 8th, 2019
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Corey Robin on Trump’s place in the conservative tradition.

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...

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