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This historian’s time-tested theory explains Trump: conservative
The Great Man Theory Is a Smokescreen for Institutional SurrenderPower Has NamesThe source article tries to use Thomas Carlyle’s “great man” theory to explain Donald Trump’s political effect, with David French treating Trump as a singular force who bent a party and a culture around himself. That is partly true only in the weakest sense: Trump is loud, persistent, and corrosive. But the real story is not that one man mysteriously conquered institutions. It is that institutions with power chose, repeatedly, to accommodate him.That distinction matters. When a party, a media ecosystem, and…
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