Trump’s Weimar America
It would be foolish and dangerous not to take him seriously. His bombast is attuned to Weimar America. The United States is not paying reparations, as Weimar Germany was after World War I. Hyperinflation does not loom. But the Europeanization of American politics is unmistakable.
.. “Every time things get worse, I do better,” Trump says. He does. They may get still worse.