'Dark and bleak' prospects for Trump's second term outlined by Duke political scientist
Raw StoryA Duke political scientist is warning that the true dangers of former President Donald Trump won't come if he succeeds in his goals, but in the more likely event that he fails. As the New York Times' Thomas Edsall reports, Duke political scientist Herbert Kitschelt takes stock of the reasons for Americans' anger that propelled Trump back to the White House, and then gives what Esdall describes as a "dark and bleak" prediction that the policies that the former president is proposing for his second term will not deliver for these aggrieved voters. "The hour of political authoritarianism arrives, when the new wagers to create economic affluence among the less well-off and to resurrect the old kinship relations of industrial society turn sour and generate disenchantment among Trump’s own following," he warns. "Trump then may well want to make sure that his disenchanted supporters — as well as those who always opposed Trumpism — will not get another chance to express their opinions."
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