ABSTRACT
The American welfare state has much more in common with its European peers than what sets them apart. In fact, the welfare state that emerged in the United States as a result of President Johnson's War on Poverty can trace its ideological roots with direct lineage back to the Swedish welfare state, which is often – and rightly so – held up as the most radical of them all. In both ideological architecture, economic execution and macroeconomic effect, the American welfare state has more in common with the Swedish welfare state than it has with, like the British one. When Trump is put in his proper context, his victory is no longer the defeat of egalitarianism, and it is certainly not the beginning of the end of the American welfare state. Egalitarianism's political practice, the welfare state, will survive both the Trump presidency and the Republican Congressional majority.
