Disraeli's Romanticism, Trump's Nationalism

The rise of Donald Trump has led me to think again about Benjamin Disraeli, one of the great figures of nineteenth-century English conservatism. There are many differences. Disraeli wrote his own books, married just one woman, and was not a newcomer to politics when, at the end of a long career in Parliament, he became Prime Minister, briefly in 1868 and then in full power from 1874-1880. But there are parallels worth pondering.

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