Sullivan's political antennae make him a superb analyst of
by sorin69 (2024-02-11 09:29:53)

In reply to: Andrew Sullivan, in an interview last week...  posted by Brahms


Trump and Trumpism. He saw all of this coming already in the summer of 2016 when the Brexit referendum happened. He's lethal on liberal and Democratic complacency and tunnel vision. On the other hand, as a conservative of a very particular kind (Michael Oakeshott), he sees what is dangerous in the reactionary impulses of populists who yearn for a strongman -- in this case, a strongman who is mentally ill, as he said just the other day in his podcast.