You can conceptualize Donald Trump as possibly the USA's Most Successful Third Party Candidate for President. Indeed his whole approach to the 2016 election, his rhetoric, his relationship with the GOP is reminiscent of a spoiler insurrectionist third party candidacy, one that actually won.
Indeed Trump embodies the entirely contradictory political ethos of no less than TWO famous third party presidential aspirants! The President's foreign policy literally apes Henry Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party Fiasco, right down to opposition to NATO, attacks on the FBI and a mystic naive' belief in the Good Intentions of Stalin's Russia. Meanwhile Trump's domestic policy is George Wallace's 1968 American Independent Party with all it's racial resentments, authoritarian tropes and white working class warfare intact.
Therefore The President is an incendiary & an insurrectionist, those are the wellsprings of his politics "Third party rebellion" its neither liberal or even conservative in nature, its just that conservatives are at the moment better served by his policies and therefore enable Trump as best they can.
Destruction & Rebellion are a political ideology unto itself, it rarely climbs into power in a democracy, but when it does really nothing but bad things happen. Sooner or later though, it is ejected from power, but only after a great deal of mindless needless suffering.
Remember that "We Must Be Equal to Our Times".
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