Trump is gearing up for his ‘final battle’. So should we | Robert Reich

Trump and the Republicans will lose this battle. Even if they win Republican primaries, they will lose the general election

Not once has Donald Trump veered from his core campaign theme.

Recall the first rally of his 2024 election campaign on 25 March in Waco, Texas - exactly 30 years after a deadly siege between law enforcement and the Branch Davidians resulted in the deaths of more than 80 members of that religious cult and four federal agents.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com