Another Trump presidency might feature scenes of disunity and political violence. But that’s always been the American way.
What would it look like the second time around? The Trump restoration. The former president has a habit of semaphoring his intentions, so anticipating what Trump 2.0 might look like hardly requires a great leap of imagination. We can build a picture from what he’s already said and done and the tell-all books of officials who served at his side.
In evaluating the threat Trump poses to US democracy, what he has already done in office, and what he has already threatened, offers disturbing portents. When, towards the end of the 1960s – a decade that had witnessed the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King jnr and Robert Kennedy – the then president Lyndon Johnson asked a panel of scholars to investigate why there was so much political violence in America, they highlighted the problem of “historical amnesia”.
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