Reading Donald Trump: A Parallax View of the Campaign and Early Presidency

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: The Emergence of America’s Trump and Trumpism (Jeremy Kowalski)....Pages 1-9 Gender and Identity in the Jigsaw Puzzle of Trump’s Zero Sum Politics (Margaret Walton-Roberts)....Pages 11-32 Trumpolect: Donald Trump’s Distinctive Discourse and Its Functions (Andrew McMurry)....Pages 33-56 Donald Trump’s Wall of Whiteness (William Major)....Pages 57-81 Immigration Courts, Judicial Acceleration, and the Intensification of Immigration Enforcement in the First Year of the Trump Administration (Austin Kocher)....Pages 83-101 The Political Economy of Donald J. Trump (Jasmin Habib, Michael Howard)....Pages 103-125 The Discourse on Terrorism of Donald Trump (Valentina Bartolucci)....Pages 127-147 Inside the Trumpian Geopolitical Imagination (Jeremy Kowalski)....Pages 149-181 Trump and Nuclear Weapons (Thomas MacManus)....Pages 183-198 Coda: Political Crisis and the Reimagining of America (Jeremy Kowalski)....Pages 199-204 Back Matter ....Pages 205-207