ABSTRACT
Donald Trump has brought far right politics into the mainstream of US politics. He is the first far right presidential candidate of one of the two major political parties in the US, at least since the end of the Second World War. This directly makes the US one of the Western democracies with the most popular far right politician. And, despite some half-hearted opposition by Ted Cruz, his candidacy was accepted and endorsed by much of the GOP leadership. This directly makes the US one of the Western democracies with the most popular far right politician – together with Austria (Norbert Hofer) and Hungary (Viktor Orbán). Most striking about Trump's form of radical right politics is its combination of elitism and populism. Most liberals believe that Trump cannot win the presidential election. His unfavorability numbers are simply too high.
