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Making sense of Donald Trump, by James Kalb  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Making sense of Donald Trump, by James Kalb 

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President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House. (Credit: The White House)

By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, Feb. 3, 2026

James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism (ISI Books, 2008), Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It (Angelico Press, 2013), and, most recently, The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church (Angelico Press, 2023).

 

To say that Trumpism is better politically than progressivism is not to say that it is an adequate view of politics and social life, or that it is likely, if it runs its course, to lead to a good or even sustainable society.

We live in unusual times, and Donald Trump is, to put it mildly, an unusual politician.

We need to understand him to deal with him, and with that in mind, I will present my own theory.

What strikes me most is that Trump has distinctive ways of doing things that never seem to vary. Just as he always eats, drinks, and dresses the same, he always operates the same—he wants to make deals, blusters outrageously to unsettle expectations, and then sees what can actually be put together, with lavish praise for those who seem likely to go along and crude insults for the recalcitrant. …

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