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As I have written elsewhere, the American exceptionalism Bush deployed—to invade Muslim countries, create lawless prison sites, target an entire class of domestic residents on the basis of ethnicity and religious affiliation, and authorize torture—seamlessly morphed into the vulgar and explicit ethnonationalism of the Trump administration.

That was not a winning response to Trump’s un-American ethnonationalism.

How can we trace support by Reagan and the Republicans for that white supremacist regime to the continuing admiration of such “ethnonationalism” if not outright racist and white supremacist policies that are being advanced by Putin, Orbán, and others?

It may seem like 1993 all over again, but the rise of ethnonationalism and the viral spread of new ideas via technology require different artistic and political strategies.

We see the rise of authoritarianism and ethnonationalism filling that gap too.