Description
This book provides a scholarly assessment and analysis of the Trump campaign and early presidency. This assessment and analysis is important not only to help provide some coherence to the turbulent and unpredictable character of “Trumpism,” but to contribute to establishing a scholarly foundation for future works that will provide assessments of the Trump presidency in its mid and later stages. Given the divisive and destructive capacity of “Trumpism” and its political and social implications both domestically and internationally, understanding the distinctive political phenomenon of “Trumpism” is necessary if resistance to this transformative moment in American political history is to be successful. This book collects a series of short scholarly contributions on various themes related to “Trumpism” by scholars from disciplines in both the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Emergence of America’s Trump and Trumpism.- 2. Gender and identity in the jigsaw puzzle of Trump’s zero sum politics.- 3. Trumpolect: Donald Trump’s Distinctive Discourse and its Functions.- 4. Donald Trump’s Wall of Whiteness.- 5. Immigration Courts, Judicial Acceleration, and the Intensification of Immigration Enforcement in the First Year of the Trump Administration.- 6. The Political Economy of Donald J. Trump.- 7. The Discourse on Terrorism of Donald Trump.- 8. Inside the Trumpian Geopolitical Imagination.- 9. Trump and Nuclear Weapons.- 10. Coda: Political Crisis and the Reimagining of America.
