Everyone knows that while Trump might be on the way out, Trumpism is alive and well. There’s a danger that four years from now a new, more competent Trump will have emerged who can instrumentalise resurgent white nationalism even more effectively and will further stoke the flames of proto-fascism.
In the UK, who knows where Boris Johnson will have left us after Brexit is done and dusted. There is similar uncertainty over renewed racist nationalist movements elsewhere, as the climate crisis escalates, inequality continues to soar and the coronavirus recession takes hold.
In response, the question has resurfaced as to whether the left should try to create an alternative, progressive nationalism to counter far-right ethno-nationalism and capture some of those who have fallen under its spell.
