Donald Trump Is Not Ideological
And his enemies fail by enacting their ideology against him
There is no ideology to Donald Trump, just id. He feels his politics in his gut. Reason and evidence are not interesting to Trump. To quote John R. Bolton, his former national security adviser, fascism is a “comprehensive ideology” while “Trump isn’t capable of philosophical thought.” Rumors of an ideological admiration for Adolf Hitler are therefore utterly ridiculous and tendentious.
His style is flamboyant, all gold and glamor. It has nothing in common with the national socialist aesthetic. Efforts to project ideology on Trump always fall apart under the slightest critical examination. His enemies are themselves ideological, so they imagine Trump as an ideological actor. Then they fail to understand him, let alone defeat him, using ideology.
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