Donald Trump is a man favored by the gods. He burst onto the political scene with a clap of thunder and lightning, turning the sclerotic and dying conservative movement on its head. After decades of loserdom and failure, he invigorated it, turning the American Right away from mindless talk of tax cuts and invading Middle Eastern backwaters and towards the foundational elements of nationhood. Trump’s focus on immigration and trade delivered him the GOP nomination and the presidency on a silver platter. It also sent the globalist Left into a meltdown from which it still hasn’t recovered.
No other figure on the Right could have done what Trump did. No matter what else one may say about his presidency’s successes or failures, one thing is entirely clear: without Trump, there would be no meaningful nationalist or populist movement in America.
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