After presidential candidate Donald Trump told Fox News in 2023 that he would not be a dictator “other than day one,” Brooklyn street artist Jacob Thomas created a series of images for an activist art project in protest, and in hopes of getting more people to vote. Here, he depicts the candidate as Italy’s Benito Mussolini and as the Soviet Union’s Josef Stalin. Image courtesy Jacob Thomas.
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Keywords: Elections, demagoguery, democracy, despotism, polarization, ressentiment
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John Keane
John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Tom Paine: a Political Life (1995), The Life and Death of Democracy (2009),... Read More
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