Donald Trump is not a traditional conservative. Traditional conservatives respect existing norms, values and institutions. Trump does not. He is America’s first elected autocrat and aspiring dictator. In that role, he views such norms, values and institutions as something to be crushed and rolled over by the MAGA movement’s shock and awe campaign. The rubble of those institutions will be used as fuel and material for Trump and his forces to erect their New MAGA America, which will be a 21st-century version of Jim Crow and a White Christian nationalist herrenvolk fake democracy.
Following the authoritarian model(s) of Viktor Orban’s Hungary and Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Trump and his allies and enablers are attempting to take control of the country's political, social, economic, religious, cultural and scientific reas of public life, government and society. The White Christian nationalists have parallel and intersecting goals which are described as the “Seven Mountains Mandate.” Given their shared authoritarian values, public opinion polls have repeatedly shown that White Christian nationalists are consistently among Donald Trump’s most loyal and enthusiastic supporters.
