Right-wing news influencer parasocial cult communities

Evidence by BITE axis

Lifton's 8 criteria of thought reform

Robert Jay Lifton's 1961 framework, complementary to BITE. Criteria this group exhibits according to the cited sources.

• Dispensing of Existence
  The group claims authority to decide who counts as a real human / saved / worthy.

Timeline

1. 2018+
   Genre proliferation

Evidence matrix

Structured sources cross-linked to the claims they document. Tiered per the source hierarchy. For free-text citations see the Sources section below.

Sources

• Various media-criticism coverage search ↗
• Trump Knows Best: Donald Trump's Rejection of Expertise and the 2020 Presidential Election — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7786860 open ↗
• Trump divide among American conservative professors — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10224651 open ↗
• Threats to Birds / Top Threats to Birds (U.S. only. Ordered by Median Estimate of Bird Mortality Annually. As of 2017.) — https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds open ↗
• The Foreign Policy-First President? US external action under Trump 2.0 – in data — https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/analysis/foreign-policy-first-president-us-external-action-under-trump-20-data open ↗
• Trumpism, climate and COVID: Social bases of the new science rejection — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10781192 open ↗
• Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5948965 open ↗
• Personality Cult or a Mere Matter of Popularity? — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9066393 open ↗
• Hegemonic masculinity predicts 2016 and 2020 voting and candidate evaluations — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7812802 open ↗
• Remarks of President Trump at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly — https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-74th-session-united-nations-general-assembly/ open ↗
• Fox News and the Performance of Ideology — Cinema Journal (2012) — https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fcj.2012.0073 open ↗
• The Great Disruptor (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-476-04976-6 open ↗
• Trump's world: The new nationalism — https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21710249-his-call-put-america-first-donald-trump-latest-recruit-dangerous open ↗
• The growing peril of national conservatism — https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/02/15/the-growing-peril-of-national-conservatism open ↗
• Canada's Conservatives pick a brainy brawler as leader — https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2022/09/15/canadas-conservatives-pick-a-brainy-brawler-as-leader open ↗
• Trump Knows Best: Donald Trump’s Rejection of Expertise and the 2020 Presidential Election — Society (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs12115-020-00544-w open ↗
• Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and ... — https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53023 open ↗
• Many Trump supporters believe God has chosen him to rule — https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2023/12/20/many-trump-supporters-believe-god-has-chosen-him-to-rule open ↗
• Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany's Far Right — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/world/europe/germany-trump-far-right.html open ↗
• Trump and Maga are no longer the same thing — https://www.ft.com/content/0871d78d-e407-4848-b67b-bea0fdf674bc open ↗
• Trump divide among American conservative professors — Theory and Society (2023) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11186-023-09517-4 open ↗
• Donald Trump and the Turn to Right-Wing Populism in the Republican Party — https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0021875825000313 open ↗
• The Far-Right Threat in the United States: A European Perspective — https://www.jstor.org/stable/27253343 open ↗
• The Far-Right Threat in the United States: A European Perspective — The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2022) — https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00027162211070060 open ↗
• The kids are Alt right? Age, authoritarian attitudes and far-right support in Europe — Journal of European Public Policy (2025) — https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13501763.2025.2488358 open ↗
• THE REPUBLICAN TRUMP VOTER: A Populist Radical Right Voter Like Any Other? — https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00438200231176818 open ↗
• Obama Took On Recession, Health Care and Iraq. What He Didn't See Coming Was Trump — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/obama-trump-oral-history.html open ↗
• White identity is meaningless. Real dignity is found in shared hopes — https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/21/white-identity-is-meaningless-dignity-is-found-in-shared-hopes open ↗
• The Populist and Nationalist Roots of Trump’s Rhetoric — Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2019) — https://doi.org/10.14321%2Frhetpublaffa.22.3.0343 open ↗
• The Populist and Nationalist Roots of Trump’s Rhetoric — Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2019) — https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.22.3.0343 open ↗
• Trump Escalates Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric With 'Poisoning the Blood' Comment — https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/politics/trump-immigration-rhetoric.html open ↗
• Donald Trump's second term would be a protectionist nightmare — https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/10/31/donald-trumps-second-term-would-be-a-protectionist-nightmare open ↗
• America's far right is increasingly protesting against LGBT people — https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/01/13/americas-far-right-is-increasingly-protesting-against-lgbt-people open ↗
• Introduction — Never Trump (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780190880446.003.0001 open ↗
• Donald Trump's impact on the Republican Party — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2021.1950667 open ↗
• Donald Trump's impact on the Republican Party — Policy Studies (2021) — https://doi.org/10.1080%2F01442872.2021.1950667 open ↗
• Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by 'My Own Morality — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html open ↗
• Trump: If it saves the country, it's not illegal — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-if-it-saves-country-its-not-illegal-2025-02-16/ open ↗
• Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken if He's 'Saving His Country — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/politics/trump-saves-country-quote.html open ↗
• CNN Poll: Most Democrats think their party needs major change, while the GOP coalesces around Trump — https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/politics/democrats-party-change-cnn-poll/index.html open ↗
• The Nazi Jurist Who Haunts Our Broken Politics — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/books/review/carl-schmitt-jd-vance.html open ↗
• Donald Trump meets Carl Schmitt — Philosophy & Social Criticism (2019) — https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0191453719872285 open ↗
• “I Alone Can Solve”: Carl Schmitt on Sovereignty and Nationhood Under Trump — Trump and Political Philosophy (2018) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-319-74445-2_17 open ↗
• The Fourth Anniversary of the Covid Pandemic — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/briefing/covid-pandemic-anniversary.html open ↗
• President Trump's transgender moral panic — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2021.1952971 open ↗
• President Trump’s transgender moral panic — Policy Studies (2021) — https://doi.org/10.1080%2F01442872.2021.1952971 open ↗
• Trump Is Connecting With a Different Type of Evangelical Voter — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/us/politics/donald-trump-evangelicals-iowa.html open ↗
• As Trump support merges with Christian nationalism, experts warn of extremist risks — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/03/07/trump-christian-nationalism-extremist-threat/72869355007/ open ↗
• Trump arrest prompts Jesus comparisons: 'Spiritual warfare — https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-arraignment-jesus-christ-conspiracy-theory-670c45bd71b3466dcd6e8e188badcd1d open ↗
• Iowa Pastors Say Video Depicting Trump as Godly Is 'Very Concerning — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/us/politics/trump-god-video-pastors-iowa.html open ↗
• The Genesis of Christian Nationalism — https://projects.propublica.org/christian-nationalism-origins/ open ↗
• In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims — https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/ open ↗
• Donald Trump made 115 false claims in the last two weeks of February — https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-february/index.html open ↗
• Trump's Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024 — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/24/us/politics/trump-election-results-doubt.html open ↗
• Donald Trump is 'gaslighting' all of us — http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/opinions/donald-trump-is-gaslighting-america-ghitis/index.html open ↗
• What we talk about when we talk about Donald Trump and 'gaslighting — https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-donald-trump-and-gaslighting/2017/01/27/b02e6de4-e330-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html open ↗
• The Reverse-Gaslighting of Donald Trump — https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/magazine/the-reverse-gaslighting-of-donald-trump.html open ↗
• Some Experts Say Trump Team's Falsehoods Are Classic 'Gaslighting — https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/some-experts-say-trump-team-s-falsehoods-are-classic-gaslighting-n711021 open ↗
• From 'alternative facts' to rewriting history in Trump's White House — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44959300 open ↗
• The White House Is Gaslighting Americans About Donald Trump's Tariffs — https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-white-house-is-gaslighting-americans-about-donald-trumps-tariffs open ↗
• The (almost) complete history of 'fake news — https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320 open ↗
• Trump's Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/18/us/elections/donald-trump-electoral-college-popular-vote.html open ↗
• Trump's 2024 'mandate' isn't as robust as Biden's was in 2020 — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/18/trumps-2024-mandate-isnt-robust-bidens-was-2020/ open ↗
• Presidential Election Margin of Victory — https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential-election-mandates open ↗
• Ghost of William Jennings Bryan haunts Trump's next run for the White House — https://www.npr.org/2023/05/20/1177148170/ghost-of-william-jennings-bryan-haunts-trumps-next-run-for-the-white-house open ↗
• The Iran War Worsens America's Democratic Erosion — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/13/opinion/iran-war-democracy-america.html open ↗
• Trump Downplays Violence on the Right and Says the Left Is the Problem — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/trump-charlie-kirk-shooting.html open ↗
• Trump Called for a Crackdown on the 'Radical Left.' But Right-Wing Extremists Are Responsible for More Political Violence — https://time.com/7317383/political-violence-america-trump-crackdown-right/ open ↗
• Blame game after acts of political violence can lead to further attacks, experts warn — https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-political-violence-shootings-utah-7b4e9b662932943a77635a0f8e839270 open ↗
• Is Donald Trump a fascist? No – he's a new brand of authoritarian — https://theconversation.com/is-donald-trump-a-fascist-no-hes-a-new-brand-of-authoritarian-241586 open ↗
• Long Live the King': Trump Likens Himself to Royalty on Truth Social — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/politics/trump-king-image.html open ↗
• We must not let the shooting of Charlie Kirk become Trump's Reichstag fire — https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/17/shooting-charlie-kirk-donald-trump-reichstag-fire-european-history-us-president open ↗
• Far-right commentators echo Trump in calling for 'vengeance and retribution' for Charlie Kirk's death — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-shooting-death-trump-reaction open ↗
• Page one of the authoritarian playbook': how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk's killing — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies open ↗
• The Age of Trump' Enters Its Second Decade — https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-escalator-10-years.html open ↗
• Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada — https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/politics/trump-us-expansion-panama-canada-greenland/index.html open ↗
• Trump ties Greenland takeover bid to Nobel Prize in text to Norway leader — https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/19/europe-trump-greenland-alliance-trade-war/ open ↗
• Trump's Iran dilemma exposes bitter split among Maga faithful — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wp72224jzo open ↗
• Drop Israel': How military escalation with Iran divides Trump's base — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/14/drop-israel-how-military-escalation-with-iran-divides-trumps open ↗
• Israel-Iran conflict splits Trump's MAGA backers — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/israel-iran-conflict-splits-maga-leaving-trump-navigate-rcna212786 open ↗
• Trump to create religious office in White House, target 'anti-Christian bias — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-sign-order-targeting-anti-christian-bias-2025-02-06/ open ↗
• After prayer breakfast, Trump creates task force to root out 'anti-Christian bias — https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-30ff6f55a2e3c7b8643a15e7b158537d open ↗
• Javier Milei, a 'Mini-Trump,' Could Be Argentina's Next President — https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/world/americas/javier-milei-argentina-election.html open ↗
• Trump-admiring populist Javier Milei triumphs in Argentina presidential election — https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/11/20/populist-milei-wins-argentina-presential-election_6270242_4.html open ↗
• Trump has long praised autocrats and populists. He's now embracing Argentina's new president — https://apnews.com/article/trump-javier-milei-democracy-populism-orban-450fed8348769975506d1da5e61da184 open ↗
• Far-right outsider takes shock lead in Argentina primary election — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/argentina-far-right-populist-javier-milei-shock-lead-primary-presidential-elections open ↗
• How similar is Argentina's Javier Milei to Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro? — https://www.ft.com/content/d2c033c5-65cb-41e8-bb06-b995fc25f9c5 open ↗
• Argentina's Milei no 'Trump of the Pampas', analysts say — https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231123-argentina-s-milei-no-trump-of-the-pampas-analysts-say open ↗
• Twitter adds 'manipulated' warning label to tweet from Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland — https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/twitter-labels-freeland-tweet-manipulated-media-1.6149734 open ↗
• Elon Musk to join Twitter's board — https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/tech/elon-musk-twitter-board/index.html open ↗
• Canadian Conservatives elect "right-wing populist" Pierre Poilievre to lead fight against Justin Trudeau — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pierre-poilievre-canada-conservatives-elect-right-wing-populist-vs-justin-trudeau/ open ↗
• Liberal operatives planted 'stop the steal' buttons at conservative conference — https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-oppo-csfn-1.7509217 open ↗
• Modi hails US-India 'mega-partnership' in Trump meeting — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgylj77xz9o open ↗
• The App Powering the Uprising in Iran, Where Some Channels Pushed for Violence — https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-app-powering-the-uprising-in-iran open ↗
• They have screwed each other pretty badly': tensions emerge in Netanyahu-Trump alliance — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/09/tensions-emerge-bejamin-netanyahu-donald-trump-alliance open ↗
• Tel Aviv Diary: Is Bibi Israel's Donald Trump? — https://www.newsweek.com/tel-aviv-diary-bibi-israels-donald-trump-432174 open ↗
• Under Trump, the authoritarian age comes into focus — https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/21/trump-authoritarian-erdogan-netanyahu-orban/ open ↗
• Israel's deep state narrative fuels judicial conflict - opinion — https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-895069 open ↗
• Ex-adviser Steve Bannon says Abe was 'Trump before Trump,' urges him to play hardball with China — https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/08/national/politics-diplomacy/ex-adviser-steve-bannon-confident-donald-trump-win-2020-despite-probes/#.XILevy2ZPOR open ↗
• Japan's ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated during a speech — https://apnews.com/article/japan-shinzo-abe-shooting-22ec2248d92304deb9cc46b2142402d2 open ↗
• Yoon visits Japan, seeking to restore ties amid N Korea threat — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/16/s-koreas-yoon-visits-japan-renew-ties-amid-n-korea-threat open ↗
• Biafran pro-Trump rally turns violent in Nigeria — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38688798 open ↗
• President Trump's Approval Rating: Latest Polls — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html open ↗
• Trump's First Year Back, in 10 Charts / Chart 9. America the Unhappy — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/27/opinion/year-in-charts-2025.html open ↗
• Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the Persistence of Authoritarian Populism in the United States — https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9hvtcf.5 open ↗
• Frankfurt School Critical Theory and the Persistence of Authoritarian Populism in the United States — Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (2018) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2Fj.ctv9hvtcf.5 open ↗
• Making Sport Great Again (2019) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-15002-0 open ↗
• Introduction — Rising Fascism in America (2021) — https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9781003198390-1 open ↗
• j.ctt21215dw.8 — https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21215dw.8 open ↗
• Authoritarianism (2018) — https://doi.org/10.7208%2Fchicago%2F9780226597300.001.0001 open ↗
• Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318794810 open ↗
• Why Evangelicals Voted for Trump: A Critical Cultural Sociology — Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics (2018) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-319-95945-0_10 open ↗
• Trump’s Arrival — Trump and Us (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1017%2F9781108854979.001 open ↗
• Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies — https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-in-the-trump-era/45-as-a-bullshit-artist-straining-for-charisma/517B5C97A2B922F2AEA7C60670C69579 open ↗
• Language in the Trump Era (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1017%2F9781108887410 open ↗
• Donald Trump as Authoritarian Populist: — Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (2018) — https://doi.org/10.2307%2Fj.ctv9hvtcf.8 open ↗
• j.ctv9hvtcf.8 — https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9hvtcf.8 open ↗
• Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323242772 open ↗
• Post-Truth, Fake News (2018) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-981-10-8013-5 open ↗
• The Media Are about Identity, Not Information — Trump and the Media (2018) — https://doi.org/10.7551%2Fmitpress%2F11464.003.0016 open ↗
• Fight, Don't Fold": The Poker Mindset and the Rise of Trumpism — https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40260-0_6 open ↗
• “Fight, Don’t Fold”: The Poker Mindset and the Rise of Trumpism — Toxic Masculinity, Casino Capitalism, and America's Favorite Card Game (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-40260-0_6 open ↗
• Levelling up Left Behind Places (2021) — https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9781032244341 open ↗
• Roots of Trumpism: Homophily and Social Feedback in Donald Trump Support on Reddit — 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1145%2F3394231.3397894 open ↗
• The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-24682-2 open ↗
• Cultural Backlash. Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism — https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cultural-backlash/3C7CB32722C7BB8B19A0FC005CAFD02B open ↗
• Reflections on the Root Causes of Outrage Discourse on Social Media — AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-43424-3_9 open ↗
• The Political — Thinking with Balibar (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1515%2F9780823288502-012 open ↗
• Presidential Leadership and the Trump Presidency — https://pfiffner.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pfiffner-The-Lies-of-Donald-Trump-A-Taxonomy.pdf open ↗
• The Lies of Donald Trump: A Taxonomy — Presidential Leadership and the Trump Presidency (2019) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-18979-2_2 open ↗
• #ConstitutionalStability — https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-43424-3_13 open ↗
• #ConstitutionalStability — AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-030-43424-3_13 open ↗
• As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html open ↗
• The U.S. Is Headed Away From The Ideals Of Democracy, Says Author Masha Gessen — https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996617553/the-u-s-is-headed-away-from-the-ideals-of-democracy-says-author-masha-gessen open ↗
• Interior Frontiers — Thinking with Balibar (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1515%2F9780823288502-010 open ↗
• Hope, Hate and Indignation: Spinoza and Political Emotion in the Trump Era — Trump and Political Philosophy (2018) — https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-319-74427-8_8 open ↗
• Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion — Journal of Management Inquiry (2022) — https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10564926221119395 open ↗
• Burlesque, Tragedy, and a (Potentially) “Yuuuge” “Breaking of a Frame”: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric as “Early Warning”? — Communication Quarterly (2018) — https://doi.org/10.1080%2F01463373.2018.1439515 open ↗
• Keep America Christian (and White): Christian Nationalism, Fear of Ethnoracial Outsiders, and Intention to Vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election — Sociology of Religion (2020) — https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fsocrel%2Fsraa015 open ↗
• Americanism not globalism will be our credo!': An analysis of the economic nationalism(s) of Trump's administration and an agenda for further research — https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nana.12717 open ↗
• ‘Americanism not globalism will be our credo!’: An analysis of the economic nationalism(s) of Trump's administration and an agenda for further research — Nations and Nationalism (2021) — https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fnana.12717 open ↗
• The Causes of Populism in the West — https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-polisci-041719-102503 open ↗
• Trumpism’s Paleoconservative Roots and Dealignment — Journal of Right-Wing Studies (2023) — https://doi.org/10.5070%2FRW3.1502 open ↗
• 2016NewSc.229...26B — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016NewSc.229...26B open ↗
• Political animals — New Scientist (2016) — https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0262-4079%2816%2930320-7 open ↗
• The US Presidency: Power and Constraint — https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-polisci-051120-113134 open ↗
• The Rise of Donald Trump Right-Wing Populism in the United States: Middle American Radicalism and Anti-Immigration Discourse — https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fsoc12060154 open ↗
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• A Christian Insurrection — https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/evangelicals-catholics-jericho-march-capitol/617591/ open ↗
• There are a lot of bitter people here, I'm one of them': rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/11/there-are-a-lot-of-bitter-people-here-im-one-of-them-rust-belt-voters-on-why-they-backed-trump-again-despite-his-broken-promises open ↗
• Trump Told Crowd 'You Will Never Take Back Our Country With Weakness — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/trump-speech-capitol.html open ↗
• Why Trumpism May Not Endure — https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/opinion/why-trumpism-may-not-endure.html open ↗
• Onward, Christian fascists — https://www.salon.com/2020/01/03/onward-Christian-fascists_partner/ open ↗
• Trumpism According to Trump — https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumpism-according-to-trump-11614812815 open ↗
• Donald Trump Has Never Sounded Like This — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/magazine/trump-rallies-rhetoric.html open ↗
• What we know about the "unprecedented" U.S. Capitol riot arrests — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-riot-arrests-2021-04-16/ open ↗
• Putin, Bolsonaro and AMLO finally congratulate Biden on US election victory — https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/europe/putin-biden-election-congratulates-intl/index.html open ↗
• Separating Trump from Trumpism is key to the GOP's future — https://www.newsweek.com/separating-trump-trumpism-key-gops-future-opinion-1572180 open ↗
• This is how fascism comes to America — https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html open ↗
• In Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orban Has A Rare Ally In The Oval Office — https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/722620996/in-trump-hungarys-viktor-orban-has-a-rare-ally-in-the-oval-office open ↗
• President Trump has made more than 2,000 false or misleading claims over 355 days — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/01/10/president-trump-has-made-more-than-2000-false-or-misleading-claims-over-355-days/ open ↗
• Trump compares political opponents to 'vermin' who he will 'root out,' alarming historians — https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-compares-political-opponents-vermin-root-alarming-historians/story?id=104847748 open ↗
• Who moved America to the right — http://www.sueddeutsche.de/1.3648311 open ↗
• Trump und Putin: Republikaner üben leichte Kritik — https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/gipfel-reaktionen-trumps-partei-mault-und-bleibt-folgsam-1.4057834 open ↗
• Trump's rise sparks isolationist worries abroad, but voters unfazed — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-rise-sparks-isolationist-worries-among-us-allies-americans-focus-home-2024-01-17/ open ↗
• The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump — https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/the-republican-identity-crisis-after-trump open ↗
• Trump backers laugh off, cheer 'dictator' comments, as scholars voice alarm — https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/12/13/trump-dictator-comments-supporters/ open ↗
• How Trump's 'Toxic Masculinity' Is Bad for Other Men — https://time.com/4273865/donald-trump-toxic-masculinity/ open ↗
• Far-right extremism dominates the GOP. It didn't start — and won't end — with Trump — https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/08/far-right-extremism-dominates-gop-it-didnt-start-wont-end-with-trump/ open ↗
• Donald Trump Isn't Even Trying to Hide His Authoritarian Second-Term Plans — https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/donald-trump-authoritarian-second-term open ↗
• The Trump Presidency Is Now History. So How Will It Rank? — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/politics/trump-presidential-history.html open ↗
• Rush Limbaugh Dies at 70; Turned Talk Radio Into a Right-Wing Attack Machine — https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/politics/limbaugh-death.html open ↗
• Schumer calls pro-Trump mob 'domestic terrorists' as Senate resumes election certification – live — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/06/georgia-election-latest-news-senate-ossoff-warnock-democrats-republicans-trump-biden open ↗
• The Fight to Define Romans 13 — https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/romans-13/562916/ open ↗
• 4 Ways Donald Trump's Pro Wrestling Experience Is Like His Campaign Today — https://www.npr.org/2016/04/30/476198343/4-ways-donald-trumps-pro-wrestling-experience-is-like-his-campaign-today open ↗
• Donald Trump, Wrestling Heel — https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/trump-politics-and-professional-wrestling/473652/ open ↗
• 6 Books to Help Understand Trump's Win — https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/books/6-books-to-help-understand-trumps-win.html open ↗
• Trump trashes Nigeria and bans its immigrants. Nigerians love him for it — https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-trashes-nigeria-and-bans-its-immigrants-nigerians-love-him-for-it/2020/02/07/ed985a4c-4853-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html open ↗
• Who exactly is Trump's 'base'? Why white, working-class voters could be key to the US election — https://theconversation.com/who-exactly-is-trumps-base-why-white-working-class-voters-could-be-key-to-the-us-election-147267 open ↗
• The ending of Trump's presidency echoes the beginning – with a lie — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-crowd-false/2020/11/15/42dd9c2a-275f-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html open ↗
• I've Hesitated to Call Donald Trump a Fascist. Until Now — https://www.newsweek.com/robert-paxton-trump-fascist-1560652 open ↗
• Trump's trade war: What is it and which products are affected? — https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/07/trump-trade-war-china-us-products open ↗
• Trump Lost the Race. But Republicans Know It's Still His Party — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/politics/republican-party-trump.html open ↗
• Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 — https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html open ↗
• Fears of a NATO Withdrawal Rise as Trump Seeks a Return to Power — https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/politics/trump-2025-nato.html open ↗
• Brazil: Bolsonaro in homophobic outburst as corruption scandal swirls — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/20/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-homophobic-outburst-corruption-scandal open ↗
• Win or Lose, It's Donald Trump's Republican Party — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/magazine/trump-influence-gop.html open ↗
• The Frankfurt school knew Trump was coming — https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-frankfurt-school-knew-trump-was-coming open ↗
• Sprachattacke der Rechtspopulisten: Trompeten des Trumpismus — https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/donald-trump-sprachattacke-der-rechtspopulisten-trompeten-des-trumpismus-a-1133299.html open ↗
• What History Tells Us Will Happen to Trumpism — https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/whats-next-trumpism/618029 open ↗
• The Nationalist's Delusion — https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-nationalists-delusion/546356/ open ↗
• The Bible is not a prop': Religious leaders, lawmakers outraged over Trump church visit — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/religious-leaders-lawmakers-outraged-over-trump-church-visit-n1221876 open ↗
• The dark history of Donald Trump's rightwing revolt — https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/16/secret-history-trumpism-donald-trump open ↗
• Facebook's failure: Did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected? — https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/10/facebook-fake-news-election-conspiracy-theories open ↗
• Openly authoritarian campaign': Trump's threats of revenge fuel alarm — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/22/trump-revenge-game-plan-alarm open ↗
• The triumph of Trumpism: the new politics that is here to stay — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/us-election-political-movement-trumpism open ↗
• Trump's NATO trip shows 'America First' is 'America Alone — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/11/trumps-nato-trip-shows-america-first-is-america-alone/ open ↗
• Analysis | Trump's personality cult and the erosion of U.S. democracy — https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/19/trump-cult-of-personality-democracy-erosion-united-states/ open ↗
• He wears the armor of God': evangelicals hail Trump's church photo op — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/03/donald-trump-church-photo-op-evangelicals open ↗
• Allan Rock on what the presidential election means for U.S.-Canada relations — https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-nov-6-2020-1.5792160/friday-november-6-2020-full-transcript-1.5793377 open ↗
• The Deep Story of Trumpism- Thinking about the Republican Party like a political psychiatrist — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/deep-story-trumpism/617498/ open ↗
• After 100 days out of office, Trump's support softens in NBC News poll — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/after-100-days-out-office-trump-s-support-softens-nbc-n1265457 open ↗
• Donald Trump CPAC speech — https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cpac-speech-transcript-read-b1808979.html open ↗
• Trump is not a fascist. But that didn't make him any less dangerous to our democracy — https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/24/opinions/trump-fascism-misguided-comparison-weber/index.html open ↗
• The Theology of Donald Trump — https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/opinion/campaign-stops/the-theology-of-donald-trump.html open ↗
• Why I Cannot Fall in Line Behind Trump — https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/opinion/sunday/why-i-cannot-fall-in-line-behind-trump.html open ↗
• The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/evangelical-christians-face-deepening-crisis/593353/ open ↗
• Trump's Most Malicious Legacy — https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/trumps-most-malicious-legacy/617319/ open ↗
• American Neoliberalism: A New Neo-Fascist Era Is Here — https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/american-neoliberalism-cornel-west-2016-election open ↗
• Opinion: Trump's Method, Our Madness — https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/opinion/trumps-method-our-madness.html open ↗
• The difference between Trumpism and fascism — https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-difference-between-trumpism-and-fascism/2020/07/09/377ae76e-c208-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html open ↗
• US announces new Iran sanctions and claims it is enforcing UN arms embargo — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/21/donald-trump-legal-power-to-impose-sanctions-on-iranians-questioned open ↗
• Election 2020: How the Trump administration's roadblocks could cause problems for Biden — https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/politics/what-matters-november-9/index.html open ↗
• Donald Trump and the myth of mobocracy — https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/trump-le-bon-mob/493118/ open ↗
• With eye on Afghanistan talks, Trump vows to stop 'endless wars — https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-afghanistan/with-eye-on-afghanistan-talks-trump-vows-to-stop-endless-wars-idUSKCN1PV07M open ↗
• RNC 2020: The Republican Party Now the Party of Trump — https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53914829 open ↗
• MAGA movement — https://www.britannica.com/topic/MAGA-movement open ↗
• Republican Party — https://www.britannica.com/topic/Republican-Party open ↗
• Donald Trump is Transforming the G.O.P. Into a Populist, Nativist Party — http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/donald-trump-is-transforming-the-g-o-p-into-a-populist-nativist-party open ↗
• Trump’s Legacy and the Liberal International Order: Why Trump Failed to Institutionalise an Anti-global Agenda — https://doi.org/10.1080/03932729.2022.2156226 open ↗
• Trump’s Legacy and the Liberal International Order: Why Trump Failed to Institutionalise an Anti-global Agenda — The International Spectator (2022) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F03932729.2022.2156226 open ↗
• President Trump: ‘We Have Rejected Globalism and Embraced Patriotism’ – The White House — https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/president-trump-we-have-rejected-globalism-and-embraced-patriotism/ open ↗
• Qué es "woke" y por qué este término generó una batalla cultural y política en EE.UU. — https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-63465024 open ↗
• Europe’s far-right leaders applaud Trump and downplay threat of possible US tariffs — https://apnews.com/article/spain-europe-farrright-trump-8ac6347a60b0b2ffe15eba9dda4a2ab5 open ↗
• Making America Great Again? — https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/making-america-great-again/FCB452649BF7157914A81693B2D83491 open ↗
• Making America Great Again? — Perspectives on Politics (2017) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1017%2FS1537592717000871 open ↗
• Fascism-lite in America (or The Social Ideal of Donald Trump) — British Journal of American Legal Studies (2018) — https://dx.doi.org/10.2478%2Fbjals-2018-0012 open ↗
• Opinion: Trump is not a fascist. But that didn't make him any less dangerous to our democracy — https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/opinions/trump-fascism-misguided-comparison-weber/index.html open ↗
• Opinion | Extremists in a Pod — https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/opinion/viktor-orban-hungary-trump.html open ↗
• Spain: ‘Trump-like’ Madrid governor set for election win — https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/30/spain-trump-like-madrid-governor-set-for-election-win open ↗
• What to Know About Geert Wilders, the 'Dutch Trump — https://time.com/4696459/geert-wilders-the-dutch-trump/ open ↗
• The New Populist Playbook — https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/09/matteo-salvini-italy-populist-playbook/597298/ open ↗
• Poland Prepares ‘Absolutely Huge’ Welcome for Trump — https://www.wsj.com/articles/poland-prepares-absolutely-huge-welcome-for-trump-1499247006 open ↗
• The Great Disruptor (2020) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-476-04976-6 open ↗
• The Rise of Donald Trump Right-Wing Populism in the United States: Middle American Radicalism and Anti-Immigration Discourse — Societies (2022) — https://dx.doi.org/10.3390%2Fsoc12060154 open ↗
• Opinion | Select the Worst Trump Minion — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/worst-trump-minion.html open ↗
• The Problem with the "Never Trump" Movement — https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-problem-with-the-never-trump-movement open ↗
• Never Trump (2020) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Foso%2F9780190880446.001.0001 open ↗
• Papacharissi, Zizi — https://comm.uic.edu/profiles/zizi-papacharissi/ open ↗
• Donald Trump Is the Result of White Rage, Not Economic Anxiety — https://time.com/4573307/donald-trump-white-rage/ open ↗
• The American Mad Max — https://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2017.22 open ↗
• The American Mad Max — Science Fiction Film & Television (2017) — https://dx.doi.org/10.3828%2Fsfftv.2017.22 open ↗
• Trump Gave Them Hope: Studying the Strangers in Their Own Land — https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2017.1330076 open ↗
• Trump Gave Them Hope: Studying the Strangers in Their Own Land — Political Communication (2017) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F10584609.2017.1330076 open ↗
• Fox News and the Performance of Ideology — https://www.jstor.org/stable/23253592 open ↗
• Traditional stereotypes about masculinity may help explain support for Trump — https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/traditional-stereotypes-about-masculinity-may-help-explain-support-trump/ open ↗
• Transcript: Donald Trump's Taped Comments About Women — https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html open ↗
• Aspirational Fascism — https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/aspirational-fascism open ↗
• Qu’est-ce que le « trumpisme » ? — Politique étrangère (2020) — https://dx.doi.org/10.3917/pe.202.0045 open ↗
• Les origines du triomphe de Donald Trump — Revue de la régulation (2019) — https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/regulation.15711 open ↗
• lire en ligne — https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-qanon-russia-idUSKBN25K13T open ↗
• Le «propriétarianisme», l’idéologie de la nouvelle ère Trump ? — https://www.liberation.fr/politique/le-proprietarianisme-lideologie-de-la-nouvelle-ere-trump-20250118_IATZJKHFQBDR5NSVHSNODMJVLI/ open ↗
• Aux Etats-Unis, le monde MAGA divisé sur la politique de Donald Trump et rongé par une mouvance néonazie — https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/20/aux-etats-unis-le-monde-maga-divise-sur-la-politique-de-donald-trump-et-ronge-par-une-mouvance-neonazie_6654085_3210.html open ↗
• Comprendre le trumpisme au-delà de Trump — https://theconversation.com/comprendre-le-trumpisme-au-dela-de-trump-255777 open ↗
• Is Trump Giving Authoritarianism a Bad Name? — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/opinion/trump-republicans-authoritarianism.html open ↗
• The Trump authoritarian cult — https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/10/26/the-trump-authoritarian-cult/ open ↗
• George Packer: „Wenn dieser Tag jemals kommt, wird es sich wie der Tod anfühlen“ - WELT. — https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus231876853/George-Packer-Wenn-dieser-Tag-jemals-kommt-wird-es-sich-wie-der-Tod-anfuehlen.html open ↗
• Timeline: Donald Trump’s praise for Vladimir Putin — https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-quotes open ↗
• Welcome to the transition — https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/politics/what-matters-november-9 open ↗
• Sultan Donald Trump? — https://theconversation.com/sultan-donald-trump-68921 open ↗
• Sprachattacke der Rechtspopulisten: Trompeten des Trumpismus_. — http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/-a-1133299.html open ↗
• You're fired': The people Trump has sacked since taking office. — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3yk3m3z4o open ↗
• Joseph Stiglitz: Wie Donald Trump die Demokratie und Wirtschaft bedroht. — https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/joseph-stiglitz-wie-donald-trump-die-demokratie-und-wirtschaft-bedroht-accg-110689929.html open ↗
• US-Regierung steigt offenbar bei Chip-Hersteller Intel ein. — https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/intel-us-regierung-100.html open ↗
• „Trump ist nicht das letzte Wort der Geschichte“: Historiker über Wendepunkte. — https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/trump-ist-nicht-das-letzte-wort-der-geschichte-historiker-ueber-wendepunkte-accg-110688313.html open ↗
• “Editorial: Donald Trump as global constitutional breaching experiment” — https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2045381718000035/type/journal_article open ↗
• “Populism and the Future of American Politics” — https://www.jstor.org/stable/26407109 open ↗
• “State of the Union under Donald Trump Presidency: Problems, Policies and Prospects” — https://www.jstor.org/stable/26802891 open ↗
• “Introduction” — https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190880446.003.0001 open ↗
• “Donald Trump: Aggressive Rhetoric and Political Violence” — https://www.jstor.org/stable/26940036 open ↗
• “Milley says the military doesn't swear oath to a 'wannabe dictator' in apparent swipe at Trump” — https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/29/politics/milley-trump-wannabe-dictator/index.html open ↗
• Making Sport Great Again: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture — https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-15002-0 open ↗
• “'Real power is fear': what Machiavelli tells us about Trump in 2020” — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/08/real-power-is-fear-donald-trump-machiavelli-boucheron open ↗
• “The hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, gesture, spectacle” — https://scholar.colorado.edu/libr_oafund/44 open ↗
• “Trumpism, climate and COVID: Social bases of the new science rejection” — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10781192/ open ↗
• How Donald Trump re-defines the term "GOP establishment — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-donald-trump-re-defines-the-term-gop-establishment/ open ↗
• Trumpism and the challenge of critical education — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2021.1884066 open ↗
• Trumpism and the challenge of critical education — Educational Philosophy and Theory (2021) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F00131857.2021.1884066 open ↗
• Fascism-lite in America (or The Social Ideal of Donald Trump) — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331478844_Fascism-lite_in_America_or_The_Social_Ideal_of_Donald_Trump open ↗
• Trump Knows Best: Donald Trump’s Rejection of Expertise and the 2020 Presidential Election — Society (2020) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2Fs12115-020-00544-w open ↗
• Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil's firebrand leader dubbed the Trump of the Tropics — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45746013 open ↗
• The twin threats facing Malcolm Turnbull: Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson — https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-twin-threats-facing-malcolm-turnbull-donald-trump-and-pauline-hanson-20170203-gu58x3.html open ↗
• George Galloway is now ‘Britain’s Donald Trump’ — https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/george-galloway-trump-batley-b1876896.html open ↗
• Election 2017: SWOT analysis of presidential candidate Hong Joon-pyo — https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170405000625 open ↗
• In Georgia, an oligarch with echoes of Trump says he's leaving politics. Many don't believe him — https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/georgia-ivanishvili-oligarch-russia/2021/01/14/f1c40944-5299-11eb-a1f5-fdaf28cfca90_story.html open ↗
• Marine Le Pen, the Donald Trump of France, Is Resurgent — https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/marine-le-pen-the-donald-trump-of-france-is-resurgent open ↗
• Five Ways India's Narendra Modi Is Just Like Donald Trump — https://www.newsweek.com/india-modi-trump-comparison-nationalist-media-democratic-truth-1433676 open ↗
• Trumpism and Putinism: Just Old Wine in New Bottles — Springer Studies on Populism, Identity Politics and Social Justice (2023) — https://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-031-36343-6_18 open ↗
• What Is Wrong With Malaysia? — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/malaysia-election-najib-razak.html open ↗
• Who is Geert Wilders, the Netherlands' Donald Trump? — https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/who-geert-wilders-netherlands-donald-trump-n732556 open ↗

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• Start here
  Pick the reading path that matches your situation.
• Patterns
  Documented control patterns with linked profiles.
• Online groups
  Political and ideological coercion often operates via online communities.
• Families
  How families and close friends can engage with high-control members.
• Recovery
  If you have left or are preparing to leave.

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