&gt; Are Trump&#x27;s politics actually reactionary, or not?<p>His <i>politics</i> are actually reactionary, yes.<p>&gt; I am not sure I have a good sense of what his actual policies would be.<p>Whether his actual <i>policies would be</i> reactionary is a different question from whether his actual <i>politics are</i> reactionary.<p>&gt; Saying things that he&#x27;s said about immigration might appear reactionary, but I&#x27;m not sure it&#x27;s not as much a play to Peoria, where the lower and middle class whites that still make up the majority of the electorate are feeling the pain of globalization and the erosion of their traditional economy.<p>Sure, its populist; that doesn&#x27;t stop it from <i>also</i> being reactionary. (Sanders, likewise, is populist, but rather the opposite of reactionary.)