NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).
In the 2000s, US Republicans thought about the world in similar ways to Britons, Europeans, Canadians.
This made for productive relationships regardless of who was in the White House.
The moderating layers around Trump #1 masked the divergence, but with Trump #2 it’s glaring.
In seven weeks Trump’s America has shattered decades-long western norms and blindsided other western leaders with abrupt policy changes.
This is because many of the values of Trump’s America are not the values of western liberal democracies.
My column:
Incidentally, the latest wave of the World Values Survey is currently in the field, and I would be pretty surprised if we haven’t seen further US right divergence.
Oh, and to a pre-empt a possible query:
The values questions used here are a fixed set over the whole period from 1990 to the 2020s, so this is not about changing definitions of terms like liberal and conservative, it’s about changes in mindset.
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).In the 2000s, US Republicans thought about the world in similar ways to Britons, Europeans, Canadians.
This made for productive relationships regardless of who was in the White House.
The moderating layers around Trump #1 masked the divergence, but with Trump #2 it’s glaring.In seven weeks Trump’s America has shattered decades-long western norms and blindsided other western leaders with abrupt policy changes.
This is because many of the values of Trump’s America are not the values of western liberal democracies.
My column:Incidentally, the latest wave of the World Values Survey is currently in the field, and I would be pretty surprised if we haven’t seen further US right divergence.Oh, and to a pre-empt a possible query:
The values questions used here are a fixed set over the whole period from 1990 to the 2020s, so this is not about changing definitions of terms like liberal and conservative, it’s about changes in mindset.
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NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.
The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). ... In the 2000s, US Republicans thought about the world in similar ways to Britons, Europeans, Canadians.
This made for productive relationships regardless of who was in the White House.
The moderating layers around Trump #1 masked the divergence, but with Trump #2 it’s glaring. ... In seven weeks Trump’s America has shattered decades-long western norms and blindsided other western leaders with abrupt policy changes.
This is because many of the values of Trump’s America are not the values of western liberal democracies.
My column: ... Incidentally, the latest wave of the World Values Survey is currently in the field, and I would be pretty surprised if we haven’t seen further US right divergence. ... Oh, and to a pre-empt a possible query:
The values questions used here are a fixed set over the whole period from 1990 to the 2020s, so this is not about changing definitions of terms like liberal and conservative, it’s about changes in mindset.
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