Martin Wolf

And at the other hand, it includes intellectual elements and people who have a religious belief in the past.

I mean, pretty obvious, they want to go back to a theocratic state or theocratic state structures.

They want to re-establish patterns of behavior and relations between men and women, between

races and so forth, which was sort of old-fashioned.

So there's a blistering new and a crusted old, as it were, trying to work together here.

There are intellectual elements and then relatively small numbers, I presume, and a huge mass of very dissatisfied people, particularly as far as I can see, men and old people.

What do these people have in common?

So to answer the question, what do I think America is about?

I don't know, because I don't think the MAGA movement broadly defined, if I can use that word, knows what it wants, because I'm not saying that individuals, people don't, but they don't share anything that is completely... Other than their affinity for Trump.

What?

So if I understand this view, what they might share, and as long as somebody like Trump is there, Trump wants to be...

I think that's pretty clear.

He wants to be a man who says, my word is law.

That's pretty obvious.

He wants to rule a state which is free to do anything, which is anything he wants, and is bound by no constraint or law or rules, external or internal.

And Louis Catorce would have understood this.

I mean, it's perfectly understandable.

This is how much of humanity was ruled since the agrarian age.

Any Egyptian pharaoh would have understood this.

So he wants that.