In an interview with Vanity Fair, the senior Brookings fellow plumbs the racist “traditionalism” that was baked into America’s origins—and connects it to the ex-president’s authoritarian ambitions today: “I don’t want to be a flip of the coin away from possibly saying that the government that was established by the founders is destroyed.
Kagan—a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an editor-at-large for The Washington Post—tracks this anti-liberal streak from the nation’s founding all the way to today’s MAGA movement, and issues a stark warning: Donald Trump, his allies, and his supporters have “made the dissolution of American liberal democracy possible.” “Whether they succeed or not,” Kagan writes, “will depend on the American people, Democrats and Republicans alike.
This animates the anti-liberal streak at the founding of the country, the Civil War and its aftermath, movements in the 20th century, and obviously the reaction of Barack Obama’s presidency that gives rise to Trump and our current predicament. Do you think it’s possible to separate anti-liberalism from racism and efforts to lace these various bigotries into the fabric of the government? Mostly no. It’s about people wanting to live in the kind of hierarchies of “traditional society.
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