Well, I mean it's really all one tendency now: white Christian nationalism.
I finished my dissertation in the year before Donald Trump's victory in 2016 (My Ph.D. diploma says January 8 of that year) having gone to great lengths to demonstrate that conservatism was not monolithic.
Trump came in and, much to my astonishment, pretty much unified the seven tendencies I had identified by giving each of them a little something.
At this point it's useless to attempt to find any sort of coherence to Trump's policies. Some of it is his apparent dementia. Some of it is a raging narcissistic desperation to look good and gain flattery. And none of it seems terribly related to reality.
David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
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