A charismatic leader with a cult following. Governing by slogans. Demonizing opponents. Purging civil servants. A population scarred by inflation. Censorship of speech against the supreme leader.
Sound familiar? This isn’t just America under President Donald Trump — it’s the playbook of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, a period of civil strife and political deadlock that lasted well over a decade.
This article gets everything backwards. Trump is undoing a “cultural revolution”.
