Trumpism Was Born in the '90s.

TRUMPISM; MODERATES (Political science); UNITED States Congressional elections; ACTIVISM; PERSIAN Gulf War, 1991; COLLECTIVE memory

Clinton, the master triangulator who repeatedly outwitted Republicans by selectively adopting their policies, was the king of this centrist Utopia, presiding over a stock market boom, a new push for the globalization of trade, and a renewal of American hegemony under the banner of liberal humanitari-anism and the "responsibility to protect." THE '90s CRADLE OF THE PRESENT The Right If decades have distinct personalities, they also have shadow selves: covert and latent tendencies that are only barely visible at the time but serve as harbingers of change to come. In 1982, Buchanan published a column decrying "the transformation of Ronald Reagan from a pivotal and revolutionary figure in American politics into a traditional, middle-of-the-road pragmatic Republican." As the Vanderbilt University historian Nicole Hemmer demonstrates in her incisive and convention-challenging Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics, the decade of Bill Clinton was also the era of Patrick Buchanan. [Extracted from the article]

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