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MAGA / Trumpism
2015– · United States · National Populist · Movement · coding confidence low
Contested codingEach axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
National restoration through a leader who claims to embody the real people against a corrupt establishment; borders, tariffs and sovereignty.
Economic model
Broad tariffs, corporate and income tax cuts, deregulation, protection of existing entitlement programmes, industrial subsidies for chips and energy.
Organisation of powers
Operates through elections while contesting the 2020 result; expanded use of executive power, pressure on civil service independence, prosecutorial and media conflicts.
Reading note
The most disputed coding in the dataset, and coded at low confidence for that reason. Scholars of fascism divide sharply: some place it inside the fascist tradition, others argue it lacks the paramilitary mass party, the corporatist economics and the explicit rejection of elections that define the historical cases. The atlas records both the elevated authority score and the substantial distance from the 1930s coordinates, and takes no position beyond that.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +04
Tax reduction and deregulation pulled right, tariffs and defence of existing entitlements pulled left. The net is mildly market-oriented.
- Programme textRepeated explicit commitments not to reduce Social Security or Medicare.
- Documented act or statuteAcross-the-board tariff programmes are inconsistent with the market pole of this axis.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +08
Coded +8: national-cultural restoration is the movement's organising theme rather than one of its policies.
- Programme textCampaigns against diversity programmes, curricula and cultural institutions are central rather than peripheral.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +06
Coded +6 with low confidence and a contested flag. This single cell drives most of the disagreement about the entry.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2020 presidential result was contested through litigation and then through the events of 6 January 2021.
- Documented act or statuteExpanded use of executive authority over civil service tenure and prosecutorial independence.
- Documented act or statuteElections have continued to be contested, funded and conceded at state level throughout, which is why the score is not higher.
- ScholarshipSpecialists divide sharply on whether these facts warrant this coding; both readings are recorded in the entry note.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +02
Coded +2: sovereigntist against supranational bodies, and centralising against states and agencies it does not control.
- Documented act or statuteWithdrawal or threatened withdrawal from multilateral agreements and bodies.
- Documented act or statuteFederal action against state and municipal policy on immigration enforcement.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +07
Coded +7 on the basis of programme, not rhetoric.
- Programme textCommitments to end birthright citizenship, restrict asylum and conduct mass removal.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +01
Coded +1, the lowest of the axes here, and the reason the entry sits far from the interwar coordinates.
- Documented act or statutePower has been sought and held through elections, primaries, litigation and appointments throughout.
- ScholarshipThe events of 6 January 2021 are the single fact that keeps this above zero, and specialists divide on how much weight it carries.
Where it came from, and what came after
- is a continuation ofUS Republican Party
The same party organisation, with a movement inside it that has changed its trade and institutional positions.
- succeededNeoreaction / Network State
No organisational link; a current of technologist opinion that has become adjacent to it.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
- Alternative for Germany2.2
- Religious Zionism3.0
- AUR3.3
- Ivorian Politics3.3
- Bolsonarismo3.9
- Christian Nationalism3.9
Countries
Arguments this entry is used in
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