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To The New Yorker's credit, they published an even-handed look at the rationale for Trumpism, titled Intellectuals for Trump. Authored by Kalefa Sanneh, it's about a conservative blogger whose nom de plume is Publius Decius Mus.
An excerpt:
Charles Kesler, a political-science professor at Claremont McKenna and editor of the Claremont Review of Books, calls Trump's election "a liberating moment for conservatism, an overdue repudiation of conservative elites and orthodoxy." The irony is that the modern conservative movement cohered, in the 1960s and 70s, as a rebellion against a Republican establishment that it considered out of touch. Now, according to a small but possibly prescient band of pro-Trump intellectuals, it is happening again. They suspect that Trump, despite his self-evident indiscipline, may prove a popular and consequential President, defying his critics - many of them conservative. They think Trumpism exists, and that it could endure as something more substantive than a political slur.
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