'MAGA Maoism': Trump slammed as US copies China’s deadliest dictator

President Donald Trump's attempt to reshape America is being referred to as "MAGA Maoism" by critics who see him making the same mistakes as Mao Zedong did during China's Cultural Revolution, according to a new article in The Atlantic.

The article quotes Georgetown University professor and China expert Rush Doshi saying, “'If you take every asymmetric American advantage'—our universities, our science, our reputation for attracting the world’s smartest young people—'we’re going after each of them in a fit of cultural Maoism.'"

Doshi explained that China's Mao Zedong "oversaw a fraught and fatal attempt to industrialize the country, known as the Great Leap Forward," and "his regime was infamous for its cult of personality."

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Doshi compared Mao's revolution to Trump's first 100 days in office, which were “defined by the relentless targeting of individuals and organizations for their heretical views and purges within the administration for those deemed insufficiently loyal."

The Atlantic's Derek Thompson noted that "Doshi isn’t the only one making this analogy."

Thompson mentioned a Washington Post article by writer Rotimi Adeoye that coined the term “MAGA Maoism” to describe the methods of the "Trumpist right."

"Like the Chinese Cultural Revolution...the Trumpist right seems obsessed with scrubbing any vestige of progressive thought from government libraries and government-funded museums," Thompson wrote.

He added that, "Another eerie echo of Mao has been MAGA’s glorification of strong men doing strong things and its dreams of sending the liberal elites to the factories and the fields to teach them a lesson."

"By driving away talented immigrants, by targeting our most successful universities, by torching our trading alliances, by dismantling our industrial policy, by slashing our scientific funding, and by hurting America’s reputation around the world at the precise moment that we need global scale to build a secure counterpart to China’s industrial dominance, Trump has responded to the threat of China by mimicking the ghost of its past," Thompson wrote.

Read The Atlantic article here.