The 19th-century doctrine that most closely resembles Trumpism
A lithograph from the late 19th century, entitled
“History repeats itself — the robber barons of the
Middle Ages and the robber barons of today.”
Cut Medicaid to give billionaires a huge tax cut. But why?
They say they want a smaller government, but that can’t be it.
Most seek a larger national defense and more muscular homeland security. Almost all want to widen the government’s powers of search and surveillance inside the United States — expunging undocumented immigrants, “securing” the nation’s borders. They want stiffer criminal sentences. Many also want government to intrude on the most intimate aspects of private, intimate life.
Many call themselves conservatives, but that’s not it, either.
They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backward — before the Environmental Protection Act, before Medicare and Medicaid, before the New Deal and its provision for Social Security, unemployment insurance, the 40-hour workweek, before official recognition of trade unions, even before the first national income tax, antitrust laws, and Federal Reserve.
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