Donald Trump and the Great American Sage
The populist hero is always a political and social risk in any kind of politics, but particularly in a democracy, because he or she arises amid crisis. A healthy democracy has no need for heroes. The country today is not in crisis, but the Republican Party certainly is. In the Republican Party at this moment, âÂÂ'tis the power of Lynch law, of soldiers and pirates; and it bullies the peaceable and loyal.â This might be a colorful way of describing Trump's tactics in bowling over countless rival candidates.