TRUMPONIAN METHODOLOGY

"IF THOSE WHO FEEL LEFT BEHIND VIEW THE SYSTEM AS RIGGED AGAINST THEM, THEY CAN PUSH OPEN SOCIETIES INTO  BECOMING CLOSED AND AUTOCRATIC. WHERE A SENSE OF COMMON GOOD IS LACKING, DEMAGOGUES CAN USE THE ANGER AND FEAR ACCOMPANYING DISRUPTIVE CHANGE TO TURN PEOPLE AGAINST ONE ANOTHER RATHER THAN ADDRESS THE TRAUMAS THAT MADE THEM ANGRY IN THE FIRST PLACE. SOCIETIES EXPERIENCING ECONOMIC STRESSES AND WIDENING INEQUALITIES ARE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO TYRANTS INTENT ON UNDERMINING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS BY LYING REPEATEDLY, ACCUSING CRITICS OF CONSPIRING AGAINST "THE PEOPLE," FUELING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVISIONS, AND INCITING RABID NATIONALISM."

Robert Reich