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Geoffrey Hodgson, Emeritus Professor in Management at Loughborough University London, Loughborough University

The Trump revolution: where it came from and where it’s going

Dancing Donald: Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, 2024. Shutterstock/Jonah Elkowitz

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing for the beginning of the second Trump Revolution. Trump’s second term will be very different from his first, when his powers were more limited and restrained. In 2016 he did not win a majority of the popular vote.

Now things are different. He received more votes than his opponent. His cabinet supports his radical agenda. He has control of both houses of Congress and of the Supreme Court. Despite what some critics say, the situation is not the same as Germany in 1933. But it is a rightist revolution, nevertheless.

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