“Only the course of coming years will tell us if Trump’s experiment in erratic anti-politics in power leaves a legacy of disorientation, or renewal on the right.”
Far Right
“Trumpism will prove rather harder to exorcise from US society. And the Democrats showed little interest in doing so.”
David Jamieson: Impeachment politics won’t solve America’s problems
“The tyrant king may have fallen, but his forces have only begun to fight. For now, they remain a sizeable fringe, loudly and occasionally violently imposing themselves on the body politic.”
Séamus McGuigan: As the sun begins to set on the Trump era, what’s next for the American far right?
“In the spectacle of the first presidential debate, two aged oligarchs battled incoherently over fractured constituencies in a broken economy.”