ascendance

The ascendance of Donald Trump as the country’s first elected autocrat is the horrific apotheosis of television’s dominance over American politics and society.

After more than a decade of Nazi ascendance, the party and the barons who would bail them out still distrusted one another.

The election was supposed to bring about their cultural ascendance.

With Trump and MAGA’s ascendance, the weak resistance to them, and the populist authoritarian base who see these forces as saviors and not destroyers and despoilers, there is no reason to act in secret.

At the root of Trumpism and American fascism’s quick ascendance, and the pitiful resistance to it, is a profound failure of imagination.