MAGA2024!”This is the sort of thing Mr. Trump is known for, even with people who came around and bent the knee.
Politics is a dominance competition, and Mr. Trump is an avid and ruthless practitioner of it.
What these Democrats seem to have forgotten is that they have their own liberal tradition of dominance politics — and if they embrace it, they would improve their chances of defeating Trumpism.
But unlike Mr. Trump, whose lies and conduct after the 2020 election were damaging to democracy, leaders like Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. exerted dominance in liberal ways and to prodemocratic ends.
Persons:
Donald Trump, Bill Barr, “, Barr, Trump, MAGA2024, —, Franklin Roosevelt, John F, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr
Organizations:
Democratic, Trumpism