Which brings us back to Donald Trump. Trumpism has been called many things: populism, patriarchalism, nationalism, and even fascism. All of these labels capture something about the Trump phenomenon. But only one of them—patriarchalism—hints at the connection to individualism. And yet, it is there—and powerfully so. MAGA is a secularized and reactionary form of white Christian nationalism. Which makes Donald Trump the new John Wayne.
