What Was MAGA Nationalism?
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump fused nationalist appeals with selective attacks on Republican market ideology. As president, he provided more rhetoric than change.
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Illustration by Carmen Casado
On the morning of January 20, 2017, as traumatized Washington elites looked on, a beaming Donald Trump delivered his first speech as president. The address reiterated the bellicose and idiosyncratic rhetoric that had carried his candidacy to victory. Opening with a classic populist flourish, he declared: “For too long, a small group in our nation’s […]