Reading Donald Trump

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.

Provides unique analyses of relevant and topical subjects in the current Trump presidency Looks at Trump's engagement with certain subjects from both his campaign and first year as president Collects together scholars from a wide range of disciplines outside of just political science

Autorentext

Jeremy Kowalski is a Lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

Inhalt

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.