Trump, I have come to believe, is exactly such an individual: He is speeding the transition from one historical era to another.
John B. Judis
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AI-assisted editorial framing · not reportingThis is a high-compression thesis line that turns Trump from politician into historical force. It is provocative partly because it asks readers to judge not just Trump, but whether the old political order is already gone.
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In a NOTUS essay, John B. Judis argued that Trump should be understood not as an aberration but as a world-historical figure accelerating a larger political transition.
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