Originally published at crisis magazine
There’s no overstating it: President Donald Trump and his voters are about to decide world history. Just ahead of Election Day, I believe it’s more than worth it to regroup and call to mind just how historic the Trump movement is in the grand scheme of global events.
It’s not often that a brief chapter of history is so momentous that it shapes an entire generation of American voters. The terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001 and the Bush administration’s response were one such inflection point. Nothing after that has come close…until Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 of last year and the relentless bloodshed that has been taking place in Gaza since.
And here’s where the historic importance of Trumpism comes in.
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It’s largely thanks to Trump’s influence that politicians today can’t so much as present themselves as Republican candidates for office without first denouncing the political establishment’s disastrous actions in response to 9/11. The months following the attack were marked by confusion, rashness, and deception. The opportunism, corruption, and political blunders of 2001 and 2002 led to a monster surveillance state, unmanned U.S. drones gunning
