ACCEPTING the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in Cleveland on July 21st, Donald Trump hailed himself as an American Caesar, sacrificing a life of private ease to enter the public arena and save a republic sunk in decadence, and betrayed by its corrupt and mendacious elites.
Mr Trump offered promises of near-instant renewal once he took office and put Americans first, abandoning the rotten policies of “globalism”. He built these visions of imminent greatness on a description of the present as a dystopian horror.
He cited recent rises in the murder rates of such big cities as Washington, DC and Chicago (President Barack Obama’s hometown), as well as specific crimes carried out by illegal immigrants. Though criminologists and police chiefs talk of complex causes for recent spikes in violence, and note that overall violent crime has fallen by almost half since 1990, Mr Trump is keenly aware that the public, in each opinion poll, says that crime is getting worse.
Mr Trump, as a strongman populist, does not traffic in complexity. He described simple reasons for the country’s woes, based on the wickedness...Continue reading
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