Enemies of our future: Donald Trump and John Bolton
NOVANEWS
By Lawrence Davidson
The reactionary
If you look up the meaning of the term “reactionary,” you will probably get something like the following: “A reactionary is a person who holds political views that favour a return to the status quo ante, the previous political state of society, which they believe possessed characteristics that are… absent from the contemporary status quo of a society.”
Historically, this sort of person pops up over and again: the agents of monarchy fighting to reimpose the divine right of kings, the devotee of religious movements seeking to return society to some purer golden age, the leader of the social movement seeking to censor evolution, and, more to our present point, Donald Trump’s call to “Make America Great Again” by reintroducing racism and ultra-...