Brooks makes Trumpism sound like populist and working-class “flyover zone” suspicion of fancy big city professors and lawyers and globalist corporations. He’s wrong. It’s virulent authoritarian and militantly hierarchical neo-fascism, the natural late-stage outcome of the eco-cidal capitalist system he came to love so dearly under the inspiration of the soulless neoliberal Pinochet advisor Milton Friedman. More

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