Pinker continues:

Over the longer run, I think the forces of modernity prevail — affluence, education, mobility, communication, and generational replacement. Trumpism, like Brexit and European populism, are old men’s movements: support drops off sharply with age.

Pinker is optimistic about the future. I hope he is right.

The problem is that even if Pinker is right, his analysis does not preclude a sustained period in which the anti-democratic right dominates American politics. There is no telling how long it will be before the movement Trump has mobilized will have run its course. Nor can we anticipate — if and when Trumpism does implode — how extensive the damage will be that Pinker’s “forces of modernity” will have to repair.

Jog, TT failed to even grasp the titles intentions re: fingers in ears.
He still sees it as he is right, no need to listen to others, they are idiots.....
Yet, he wonders how long it will take, shouldn’t that depend more on the question, when are you going to listen?

Again, it’s not Trump, he has been all over the political map, it’s yhe so called deplorable that are as mad as hell and they are not going to take it any longer.

As in a war, it takes two combatants, and in that process of escalations, damage is done by both parties......

Yet he thinks it’s only one.