Donald Trump may have lost the U.S. election, but Trumpism is alive and well, according to Jennifer Evans, a professor of modern European history at Carleton University.

Today in The Conversation Canada, Evans draws parallels between Trump and authoritarian strongmen like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but she also points out that Trump's "everyday racism is not an aberration … although it may be extreme, it’s at the core of America’s history.”

And she points out that Black and racialized Americans have often been the voters to mobilize to safeguard democracy, just as they did this election — even though America’s form of democracy hasn’t done much to protect them.

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Lee-Anne Goodman

Politics, Business + Economics Editor
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