Excellent article by Andrew Sullivan in New York Magazine about the ideology of modern reactionism as the driving force beneath Trumpism and the perils of ignoring it:

"You can almost feel the g-force today.  What are this generation’s reactionaries reacting to?  They’re reacting, as they have always done, to modernity.  But their current reaction is proportional to the bewildering pace of change in the world today.  They are responding, at some deep, visceral level, to the sense that they are no longer in control of their own lives.  They see the relentless tides of globalization, free trade, multiculturalism, and mass immigration eroding their sense of national identity.  They believe that the profound shifts in the global economy reward highly educated, multicultural enclaves and punish more racially and culturally homogeneous working-class populations.  And they rebel against the entrenched power of elites who, in their view, reflexively sustain all of the above.

I know why many want to dismiss all of this as mere hate, as some of it certainly is.  I also recognize that engaging with the ideas of this movement is a tricky exercise in our current political climate.  Among many liberals, there is an understandable impulse to raise the drawbridge, to deny certain ideas access to respectable conversation, to prevent certain concepts from being “normalized.”  But the normalization has already occurred — thanks, largely, to voters across the West — and willfully blinding ourselves to the most potent political movement of the moment will not make it go away."