Republic of Georgia Shows Trump & His Fans Depressingly Normal

... place, and is thus deeply relevant to understanding our own predicament with Mr. Trump and his fans. To illustrate this point, I will steal from my own graduate school work in 2009 on conflict in Georgia involving Georgians, Abkhaz, Ossetians, and Russians, inserted in italicized blocs (apologies for all the parenthetical citations as we had a very strict and I would argue frustrating series of guidelines; here is the full paper). As will be demonstrated, much of Georgian history involves internal ...