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His political positions are populist, [534] [535] more specifically described as right-wing populist. [536] [537] He helped bring far-right fringe ideas and organizations into the mainstream. [538] Many of his actions and rhetoric have been described as authoritarian and contributing to democratic backsliding.
With the decline of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party after 1960, the movement is most closely associated with the Republican Party (GOP). Economic conservatives favor less government regulation, lower taxes and weaker labor unions while social conservatives focus on moral issues and neoconservatives focus on democracy worldwide.
In a 2014 interview, Trump questioned whether Obama had produced his long-form birth certificate. [132] When asked in December 2015 if he still questioned Obama's legitimacy, Trump said that "I don't talk about that anymore." [136] On September 14, 2016, Trump declined to acknowledge whether he believed Obama was born in the United States. [137]
In Mother Jones, Washington bureau chief David Corn called Project 2025 "the right-wing infrastructure that is publicly plotting to undermine the checks and balances of our constitutional order and concentrate unprecedented power in the presidency. Its efforts, if successful and coupled with a Trump (or other GOP) victory in 2024, would place ...
According to conservative academic Sean Speer, some of the most important developments within the 21st century American conservative movement include the rise of Donald Trump and right-wing populism more broadly, an emerging movement within conservatism that is opposed to both post-Cold War neoliberalism and liberalism more broadly, [123] a ...
On July 19, 2013, President Obama gave a speech in place of the usual White House daily briefing normally given by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. In the 17-minute speech, President Obama spoke about public reaction to the conclusion of the George Zimmerman trial, racial profiling, and the state of race relations in the United States. [46]
On February 12, 2008, Barack Obama mentioned Obama Republicans in his Potomac primary victory speech: "We are bringing together Democrats and independents, and yes, some Republicans. I know there is—I meet them when I'm shaking hands afterwards. There's one right there. An Obamacan, that's what we call them."
Trumpism has been described as right-wing authoritarian populist, [66] and is broadly seen among scholars as posing an existential threat to American democracy. [67] His presidency sparked renewed focus and research on restraining presidential power and the threats of a criminal presidency that had died down since the Nixon administration. [68]