Jackson Lears discusses Donald Trump's relentlessness and animal spirits

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 1

In a New York Times Opinion conversation with editor John Guida, Lears links Trump’s second administration to a long American pursuit of vitality.
He argues Trump’s appeal rests on seeming spontaneous and authentic, while his energies scatter destructively across immigrants, trading partners, allies and rivals.
Lears says the war in Iran shows this impulse running out of control, tying it to a bipartisan tradition of seeking national renewal through war and intervention.

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