The circumstances were different, to be sure, but both Trump and May were swept into office by a wave of right-wing populism. How have they responded to it?
May’s budget indicates that she has moved to the center in order to sweep up the votes of disaffected members of Labour. The Trump budget, on the other hand, is the most ferociously right-wing document that I have seen in my lifetime. It combines the anti-government zeal of the Conservative Libertarians with many of the spending priorities of the Reactionaries. Large parts of it will never become law, but as an ideological blueprint, it couldn’t be clearer.
May is almost certainly going to win a smashing victory next month. Can Trump thrive by ignoring the interests of voters outside of his base? We’ll see.