Richard Hanania: Can you trust a populist?
Richard Hanania had a ringside seat for the rise of MAGA, as his Substack essays on anti-woke issues gained traction at the highest level of the new American Right. He had high hopes for Donald Trump’s second term, and coined the term ‘Tech Right’, hoping for an administration that worked productively alongside some of the smartest people in Silicon Valley. In practice, he says the second Trump presidency has proved ‘a nightmare scenario’.
Hanania’s new book ‘Kakistocracy’ is an attempt to understand what went wrong – and the wider lessons as populism continues to gain ground around the…
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