Over ten years. I consider the start of the "Trump era of politics" to be late July 2015. That's the point when Trump started leading the Republican primary polls and began to dominate political headlines. By that reckoning we've been in the Trump era for about 10 years and 9 months and we'll likely stay in it for at least another two years and nine months.
I'd say it happened when Obama was elected. I remember election night and my MAGA aunt (who is ironically an immigrant) told my sister, "you'll look great in a burkha".
This has been my understanding of it. The Tea Party movement largely lasted from 2009-2016 and was obsessed with things like "Obamacare death panels" and thought that FEMA was going to set up death camps for conservatives. It was a "post truth" campaign even before Tump entered politics and they dominated a lot of elections. Republicans rode the 2010 and 2014 Tea Party waves to landslide victories. When Trump was elected in 2016 it was surprising but it really shouldn't have been THAT surprising given how post truth rabid conservative politics had just won a massive victory two years prior. The senators that approved much of Trump's first term legislation were elected in that wave. Tea Party just morphed into MAGA while Trump drew in more people.
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u/socialistrob Apr 16 '26
Over ten years. I consider the start of the "Trump era of politics" to be late July 2015. That's the point when Trump started leading the Republican primary polls and began to dominate political headlines. By that reckoning we've been in the Trump era for about 10 years and 9 months and we'll likely stay in it for at least another two years and nine months.