Opinion: This is the dark, unspoken promise of Trump’s return
Trump and his supporters have shown tremendous hostility to civic institutions. He will likely begin by getting rid of experts, regulators and other civil servants he sees as superfluous, eliminating jobs that he thinks simply shouldn’t exist.For those bewildered by why so many Americans apparently voted against the values of liberal democracy, Balint Magyar has a useful formulation.
I called Magyar to ask about this pattern in the late winter of 2021, when it became clear to me that Trump would run for reelection. Magyar is Hungarian, and has extensively studied the autocracy of Orban. Like Trump, Orban had been cast out of office ; he didn’t regain power until eight years later. In the interim, he consolidated his movement, positioning himself and his party as the only true representatives of the Hungarian people.
Civil society groups — especially those that serve or advocate for immigrants, formerly incarcerated people, LGBTQ+ people, women and vulnerable groups — will be attacked. Then they may come for the unions. I made that case to Magyar, unsuccessfully. Look at the Trump family’s appetite for profiting from his political office, he said. That’s not something fascists are known for. The Nazis, for example — “when they took away property from the Jews, they didn’t put it in their own pockets,” he said. “They put it in the state budget.” Orban, on the other hand, is understood to be extraordinarily wealthy; Putin is rumored to be the richest man in Russia.
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