What Trump should do now
Key steps necessary for the consolidation of the MAGA revolution
During the last two and one-half years, I have maintained in this column that a non-violent revolution in the USA is possible. I define revolution as the taking of political power—the taking of control of the principal governing institutions of the nation—by an underdog, non-elite class, taking political power from the hands of the power elite. And I have maintained that in order to take political power, a movement for change must reconceptualize American ideology, drawing from strains of both the Left and Right, attaining supporters from both ideological bands and attaining power through established electoral procedures, imperfect though they are; seizing the opportunity provided by the decadence of the American power elite, which has betrayed the nation and the people through Cold War ideologies, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and globalism, rendering itself incapable of constructively addressing national problems.
In reflecting upon recent polit…