In America, the hope that politics might snap back to a pre-Trump normal is colliding with a harsher reading of history. Nick Bryant argues that the rise of Donald Trump was less a rupture than a culmination of nativism, isolationism, conspiratorial thinking and cyclical backlash that have long shaped the republic. Landmark shocks from September 11 attacks to Brown v. Board of Education did not transform America overnight. Instead, change came slowly, through decades of reform and resistance. Trump’s political restoration after the 2024 election, and the polarisation surrounding it, fits this pattern of zig-zagging progress and reaction. The lesson, Bryant concludes, is sobering: American history is less a story of decisive turning points than an argument without end, meaning the country’s post-Trump era will likely unfold gradually rather than abruptly.
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Returning to the pre-2024 world is not going to happen, and it shouldnt be the goal of defeating Trump. Create a world instead that wont go through so much radical change in such a short timespan.
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In America, the hope that politics might snap back to a pre-Trump normal is colliding with a harsher reading of history. Nick Bryant argues that the rise of Donald Trump was less a rupture than a culmination of nativism, isolationism, conspiratorial thinking and cyclical backlash that have long shaped the republic. Landmark shocks from September 11 attacks to Brown v. Board of Education did not transform America overnight. Instead, change came slowly, through decades of reform and resistance. Trump’s political restoration after the 2024 election, and the polarisation surrounding it, fits this pattern of zig-zagging progress and reaction. The lesson, Bryant concludes, is sobering: American history is less a story of decisive turning points than an argument without end, meaning the country’s post-Trump era will likely unfold gradually rather than abruptly.
Returning to the pre-2024 world is not going to happen, and it shouldnt be the goal of defeating Trump. Create a world instead that wont go through so much radical change in such a short timespan.