Donald Trump Is a Menace to American Democracy. But He Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere.

Donald Trump Is a Menace to American Democracy. But He Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere.: Liberals are right to condemn Donald Trump for his disastrous mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic and his undisguised contempt for democracy. But Trump is no aberration: his rise was only possible because of a Republican and Democratic political consensus that has ravaged American politics and society for a generation.