Trump's Rhetoric Has Reshuffled Left and Right

MAGA fascism and the cult of Trump are not bound by any ideological consistency.

I have always found the so-called horseshoe theory of politics, that posits that the far left and the far right meet, or at least are very similar, at their extremes, to be unhelpful. The theory, when applied to American politics, downplays real ideological differences between left and right, while at the same time creating a false equivalency between t…