Yes Trumps bad 1959's style authoritarian simplistic paternalistic examples, which I remember all too well, has brought all the scum out of the woodwork who want to go back to the past.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche