Trump and Naziyahu undermining our future
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Trump and Netanyahu undermining our future
By Lawrence Davidson
Attacking the progressive past
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the re-election of Binyamin Netanyahu in 2019 occurred under different circumstances, and yet they are very similar in their results. They both put an authoritarian figure in power through democratic electoral processes. As well, both of these figures, like so many modern reactionary leaders before them, denigrate the recent past. Why do they do so?
In the case of Trump, the past he despises is the 1960s, with its progressive civil rights legislation. The laws passed at this time pushed the white supremacy model out of the public realm. Trump, in practice, has proven to be a white supremacist and an extreme nationalist. Most of his “core” votin...