Trumpism
| ||
---|---|---|
Business and personal 45th President of the United States Tenure
Impeachments Prosecutions Interactions involving Russia
|
||
This article is part of a series on |
Conservatism in the United States |
---|
Part of a series on |
Neo-fascism |
---|
Politics portal |
January 6 United States Capitol attack |
---|
Timeline • Planning |
Background |
Participants |
Aftermath |
Trumpism is an
The distinguishing mark of Trumpism is that it is authoritarian,
Some commentators have rejected the populist designation for Trumpism and view it instead as part of a trend towards a new form of
The label Trumpism has been applied to
Populist themes, sentiments, and methods
Trumpism started its development during
Writing for the Routledge Handbook of Global Populism (2019), Olivier Jutel writes, "What Donald Trump reveals is that the various iterations of right-wing American populism have less to do with a programmatic
Communications scholar
Other contributors to the Routledge Handbook of Populism note that populist leaders rather than being ideology driven are instead pragmatic and opportunistic regarding themes, ideas and beliefs that strongly resonate with their followers.
Some prominent conservatives formed a
Focus on sentiments
Historian
Like many academics examining the populist appeal of Trump's messaging, Hidalgo-Tenorio and Benítez-Castro draw on the theories of Ernesto Laclau writing, "The emotional appeal of populist discourse is key to its polarising effects, this being so much so that populism 'would be unintelligible without the affective component.' (Laclau 2005, 11)"[97][98] Scholars from a wide number of fields have observed that particular affective themes and the dynamics of their impact on social media-connected followers characterize Trump and his supporters.
Trump uses rhetoric that political scientists have deemed to be both dehumanizing and connected to physical violence by Trump's followers.[99]
Pleasure from sympathetic company
Communications scholar Michael Carpini states that "Trumpism is a culmination of trends that have been occurring for several decades. What we are witnessing is nothing short of a fundamental shift in the relationships between journalism, politics, and democracy." Among the shifts, Carpini identifies "the collapsing of the prior [media] regime's presumed and enforced distinctions between news and entertainment."[100] Examining Trump's use of media for the book Language in the Trump Era, communication professor Marco Jacquemet writes that "It's an approach that, like much of the rest of Trump's ideology and policy agenda, assumes (correctly, it appears) that his audiences care more about shock and entertainment value in their media consumption than almost anything else."[101]
The perspective is shared among other communication academics, with Plasser & Ulram (2003) describing a media logic which emphasizes "personalization ... a political star system ... [and] sports based dramatization."[102] Olivier Jutel notes that "Donald Trump's celebrity status and reality-TV rhetoric of 'winning' and 'losing' corresponds perfectly to these values", asserting that "Fox News and conservative personalities from Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Alex Jones do not simply represent a new political and media voice but embody the convergence of politics and media in which affect and enjoyment are the central values of media production."[103]
Studying Trump's use of social media, anthropologist Jessica Johnson finds that social emotional pleasure plays a central role, writing, "Rather than finding accurate news meaningful,
From Kreiss's 2018 account of conservative personalities and media, information became less important than providing a sense of familial bonding, where "family provides a sense of identity, place, and belonging; emotional, social, and cultural support and security; and gives rise to political and social affiliations and beliefs."[108] Hochschild gives the example of one woman who explains the familial bond of trust with the star personalities. "Bill O'Reilly is like a steady, reliable dad. Sean Hannity is like a difficult uncle who rises to anger too quickly. Megyn Kelly[c] is like a smart sister. Then there's Greta Van Susteren. And Juan Williams, who came over from NPR, which was too left for him, the adoptee. They're all different, just like in a family."[109]
Media scholar Olivier Jutel focuses on the
Researchers give differing emphasis to which emotions are important to followers. Michael Richardson argues in the Journal of Media and Cultural Studies that "affirmation, amplification and circulation of disgust is one of the primary affective drivers of Trump's political success." Richardson agrees with Ott about the "entanglement of Trumpian affect and social media crowds" who seek "affective affirmation, confirmation and amplification. Social media postings of crowd experiences accumulate as 'archives of feelings' that are both dynamic in nature and affirmative of social values (Pybus 2015, 239)."[111][112]
Using Trump as an example,
Right-wing authoritarian populism
Other academics have made politically urgent warnings about Trumpian authoritarianism, such as Yale sociologist
the election of Donald Trump constitutes perhaps the greatest threat to American democracy since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. There is a real and growing danger that representative government will be slowly but effectively supplanted by a populist form of authoritarian rule in the years to come. Media intimidation, mass propaganda, voter suppression, court packing, and even armed paramilitaries—many of the necessary and sufficient conditions for an authoritarian devolution are gradually falling into place.[26]
Some academics regard such authoritarian backlash as a feature of liberal democracies.
Conservative columnist
Disputing the view that the surge of support for Trumpism and Brexit represents a new phenomenon, political scientist Karen Stenner and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt present the argument that
the far-right populist wave that seemed to 'come out of nowhere' did not in fact come out of nowhere. It is not a sudden madness, or virus, or tide, or even just a copycat phenomenon—the emboldening of bigots and despots by others' electoral successes. Rather, it is something that sits just beneath the surface of any human society—including in the advanced liberal democracies at the heart of the Western world—and can be activated by core elements of liberal democracy itself.
Discussing the statistical basis for their conclusions regarding the triggering of such waves, Stenner and Haidt present the view that "authoritarians, by their very nature, want to believe in authorities and institutions; they want to feel they are part of a cohesive community. Accordingly, they seem (if anything) to be modestly inclined toward giving authorities and institutions the benefit of the doubt, and lending them their support until the moment these seem incapable of maintaining 'normative order'"; the authors write that this normative order is regularly threatened by liberal democracy itself because it tolerates a lack of consensus in group values and beliefs, tolerates disrespect of group authorities, nonconformity to group norms, or norms proving questionable, and in general promotes diversity and freedom from domination by authorities. Stenner and Haidt regard such authoritarian waves as a feature of liberal democracies noting that the findings of their 2016 study of Trump and Brexit supporters was not unexpected, as they wrote:
Across two decades of empirical research, we cannot think of a significant exception to the finding that normative threat tends either to leave non-authoritarians utterly unmoved by the things that catalyze authoritarians or to propel them toward being (what one might conceive as) their 'best selves.' In previous investigations, this has seen non-authoritarians move toward positions of greater tolerance and respect for diversity under the very conditions that seem to propel authoritarians toward increasing intolerance.[115]
Author and authoritarianism critic
The 2020 Republican Party platform simply endorsed "the President's America-first agenda", prompting comparisons to contemporary leader-focused party platforms in Russia and China.[124]
General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, has described Trump as a "wannabe dictator":
We are unique among the world's militaries. We don't take an oath to a country, we don't take an oath to a tribe, we don't take an oath to a religion. We don't take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we're willing to die to protect it.[125][126]
Nostalgia and male bravado
The term that describes the behavior of Kimmel's angry white males is
Social psychologists Theresa Vescio and Nathaniel Schermerhorn note that "In his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump embodied HM [
Gender role scholar Colleen Clemens describes this toxic masculinity as "a narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by violence, sex, status and aggression. It's the cultural ideal of manliness, where strength is everything while emotions are a weakness; where sex and brutality are yardsticks by which men are measured, while supposedly 'feminine' traits—which can range from emotional vulnerability to simply not being hypersexual—are the means by which your status as "man" can be taken away."[133] Writing in the Journal of Human Rights, Kimberly Theidon notes the COVID-19 pandemic's irony of Trumpian toxic masculinity: "Being a tough guy means wearing the mask of masculinity: Being a tough guy means refusing to don a mask that might preserve one's life and the lives of others."[128]
Tough guy bravado appeared on the internet prior to
Christian Trumpism
According to 2016 election exit polls, 26% of voters self identified as white
Israeli philosopher Adi Ophir sees the politics of purity in the white Christian nationalist rhetoric of evangelical supporters, such as the comparison of Nehemiah's wall around Jerusalem to Trump's wall keeping out the enemy, writing, "the notion of the enemy includes 'Mexican migrants', 'filthy' gays, and even Catholics 'led astray by Satan', and the real danger these enemies pose is degradation to a 'blessed—great— ... nation' whose God is the Lord."[140]
Theologian
Evangelical Christian and historian John Fea believes "the church has warned against the pursuit of political power for a long, long time", but that many modern-day evangelicals such as Trump advisor and televangelist Paula White ignore these admonitions. Televangelist Jim Bakker praises prosperity gospel preacher White's ability to "walk into the White House at any time she wants to" and have "full access to the King." According to Fea, there are several other "court evangelicals" who have "devoted their careers to endorsing political candidates and Supreme Court justices who will restore what they believe to be the Judeo-Christian roots of the country" and who in turn are called on by Trump to "explain to their followers why Trump can be trusted in spite of his moral failings", including James Dobson, Franklin Graham, Johnnie Moore Jr., Ralph Reed, Gary Bauer, Richard Land, megachurch pastor Mark Burns and Southern Baptist pastor and Fox political commentator Robert Jeffress.[142]
Christian Trumpism | |
---|---|
Orientation | American civil religion American exceptionalism Christian nationalism Christian right Conservatism in the United States Cult of personality |
Polity | Decentralized |
For prominent Christians who fail to support Trump, the cost is not a simple loss of presidential access but a substantial risk of a firestorm of criticism and backlash, a lesson learned by
Historian Stephen Jaeger traces the history of admonitions against becoming beholden religious courtiers back to the 11th century, with warnings of curses placed on holy men barred from heaven for taking too "keen an interest in the affairs of the state."[144] Dangers to the court clergy were described by Peter of Blois, a 12th-century French cleric, theologian and courtier who "knew that court life is the death of the soul"[145] and that despite participation at court being known to them to be "contrary to God and salvation," the clerical courtiers whitewashed it with a multitude of justifications such as biblical references of Moses being sent by God to the Pharaoh.[146] Pope Pius II opposed the clergy's presence at court, believing it was very difficult for a Christian courtier to "rein in ambition, suppress avarice, tame envy, strife, wrath, and cut off vice, while standing in the midst of these [very] things." The ancient history of such warnings of the dark corrupting influence of power over holy leaders is recounted by Fea who directly compares it to behavior of Trump's court evangelical leaders, warning that Christians are "in jeopardy of making idols out of political leaders by placing our sacred hopes in them."[147]
Jeffress claims that evangelical leaders' support of Trump is moral regardless of behavior that Christianity Today's chief editor called "a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused."[149] Jeffress argues that "the godly principle here is that governments have one responsibility, and that is Romans 13 [which] says to avenge evil doers."[150] This same biblical chapter was used by Jeff Sessions to claim biblical justification for Trump's policy of separating children from immigrant families. Historian Lincoln Muller explains this is one of two types of interpretations of Romans 13 which has been used in American political debates since its founding and is on the side of "the thread of American history that justifies oppression and domination in the name of law and order."[151]
From Jeffress's reading, government's purpose is as a "strongman to protect its citizens against evildoers", adding: "I don't care about that candidate's tone or vocabulary, I want the meanest toughest son a you-know-what I can find, and I believe that is biblical."
Like Jeffress, Richard Land refused to cut ties with Trump after his reaction to the
Evangelical biblical scholar
Evangelical Bible studies author Beth Moore joins in criticism of the perspective of Trump's evangelicals, writing: "I have never seen anything in these United States of America I found more astonishingly seductive and dangerous to the saints of God than Trumpism. This Christian nationalism is not of God. Move back from it." Moore warns that "we will be held responsible for remaining passive in this day of seduction to save our own skin while the saints we've been entrusted to serve are being seduced, manipulated, USED and stirred up into a lather of zeal devoid of the Holy Spirit for political gain." Moore's view is that "[w]e can't sanctify idolatry by labeling a leader our Cyrus. We need no Cyrus. We have a king. His name is Jesus."[159]
Other prominent white evangelicals have taken Bible based stands against Trump, such as Peter Wehner of the conservative
Theologian Greg Boyd has challenged the religious right's politicization of Christianity and the Christian nationalist theory of American exceptionalism, charging that "a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry". Boyd compares the cause of "taking America back for God" and policies to force Christian values through political coercion to the aspiration in first century Israel to "take Israel back for God", which caused followers to attempt to fit Jesus into the role of a political messiah. Boyd argues that Jesus declined to become a political leader, demonstrating that "God's mode of operation in the world was no longer going to be nationalistic."[167]
Boyd asks whether Jesus ever suggested that Christians should aspire to gaining power in the reigning government of the day, or whether he advocated using civil laws to change the behavior of sinners. Like Fea, Boyd states he is not arguing for passive political noninvolvement (writing that "of course our political views will be influenced by our Christian faith"); rather, he asserts that Christians must embrace humility and not "christen our views as 'the' Christian view". This humility, in Boyd's view requires Christians to reject social domination. He contends that "the only way we individually and collectively represent the kingdom of God is through loving, Christ like, sacrificial acts of service to others. Anything and everything else, however good and noble, lies outside the kingdom of God".[167]
Horton asserts that rather than engaging in what he calls the cult of "Christian Trumpism", Christians should reject turning the "saving gospel into a worldly power".[141] Fea contends that the Christian response to Trump should feature the principles and tactics used in the civil rights movement, namely preaching hope rather than fear; practicing humility, not using power to socially dominate others; and reading history responsibly (as in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail) rather than feeling nostalgia for a prior American Christian utopia that never was.[168]
Conservative orthodox Christian writer
Methods of persuasion
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild thinks emotional themes in Trump's rhetoric are fundamental, writing that his "speeches—evoking dominance, bravado, clarity, national pride, and personal uplift—inspire an emotional transformation," deeply resonating with their "emotional self-interest". Hochschild's perspective is that Trump is best understood as an "emotions candidate", arguing that comprehending the emotional self-interests of voters explains the paradox of the success of such politicians raised by Thomas Frank's book What's the Matter with Kansas?, an anomaly which motivated her five-year immersive research into the emotional dynamics of the Tea Party movement which she believes has mutated into Trumpism.[173][174]
The book resulting from her research,
Rhetorically, Trumpism employs absolutist
This three-part pattern was first identified in 1932 by
Trump's skill with
Political science scholar Andrea Schneiker regards the heavily promoted Trump public persona as that of a superhero, a genius but still "an ordinary citizen that, in case of an emergency, uses his superpowers to save others, that is, his country. He sees a problem, knows what has to be done in order to solve it, has the ability to fix the situation and does so. According to the branding strategy of Donald Trump ... a superhero is needed to solve the problems of ordinary Americans and the nation as such, because politicians are not able to do so. Hence, the superhero per definition is an anti-politician. Due to his celebrity status and his identity as entertainer, Donald Trump can thereby be considered to be allowed to take extraordinary measures and even to break rules."[191][192]
According to civil rights lawyer
Connolly presents a similar list in his book Aspirational Fascism (2017), adding comparisons of the integration of theatrics and crowd participation with rhetoric, involving grandiose bodily gestures, grimaces, hysterical charges, dramatic repetitions of alternate reality falsehoods, and totalistic assertions incorporated into signature phrases that audiences are strongly encouraged to join in chanting.
Reporting on the crowd dynamics of Trumpist rallies has documented expressions of the Money-Kyrle pattern and associated stagecraft,[203][204] with some comparing the symbiotic dynamics of crowd pleasing to that of the sports entertainment style of events which Trump was involved with since the 1980s.[205][206] Critical theory scholar Douglas Kellner compares the elaborate staging of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will with that used with Trump supporters using the example of the preparation of photo op sequences and aggressive hyping of huge attendance expected for Trump's 2015 primary event in Mobile, Alabama, when the media coverage repeatedly cuts between the Trump jet circling the stadium, the rising excitement of rapturous admirers below, the motorcade and the final triumphal entrance of the individual Kellner claims is being presented as the "political savior to help them out with their problems and address their grievances".[207]
Connolly thinks the performance draws energy from the crowd's anger as it channels it, drawing it into a collage of anxieties, frustrations and resentments about malaise themes, such as deindustrialization, offshoring, racial tensions, political correctness, a more humble position for the United States in global security, economics and so on. Connolly observes that animated gestures, pantomiming, facial expressions, strutting and finger pointing are incorporated as part of the theater, transforming the anxiety into anger directed at particular targets, concluding that "each element in a Trump performance flows and folds into the others until an aggressive resonance machine is formed that is more intense than its parts."[186]
Some academics point out that the narrative common in the popular press describing the psychology of such crowds is a repetition of a 19th-century theory by
Falsehoods
The absolutist rhetoric employed heavily favors crowd reaction over veracity, with a
Trump is surprised when his falsehoods are contradicted, as was the case when leaders at the 2018
More combative, less ideological base
Journalist Elaina Plott suggests ideology is not as important as other characteristics of Trumpism.[note 19] Plott cites political analyst Jeff Roe, who observed Trump "understood" and acted on the trend among Republican voters to be "less ideological" but "more polarized". Republicans are now more willing to accept policies like government mandated health care coverage for pre-existing conditions or trade tariffs, formerly disdained by conservatives as burdensome government regulations. At the same time, strong avowals of support for Trump and aggressive partisanship have become part of Republican election campaigning—in at least some parts of America—reaching down even to non-partisan campaigns for local government which formerly were collegial and issue-driven.[217] Research by political scientist Marc Hetherington and others has found Trump supporters tend to share a "worldview" transcending political ideology, agreeing with statements like "the best strategy is to play hardball, even if it means being unfair." In contrast, those who agree with statements like "cooperation is the key to success" tend to prefer Trump's adversary former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.[217]
On January 31, 2021, a detailed overview of the attempt by combative Trump supporters to subvert the election of the United States was published in
An alternate nonideological circular definition of Trumpism widely held among Trump activists was reported by Saagar Enjeti, chief Washington correspondent for The Hill, who stated: "I was frequently told by people wholly within the MAGA camp that trumpism meant anything Trump does, ergo nothing that he did is a departure from trumpism."[222]
Ideological themes
Trumpism differs from classical
At the 2021
Social psychology
Dominance orientation
In a non-academic book which he co-authored with John Dean entitled Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers, Altemeyer describes research which reaches the same conclusions. Despite disparate and inconsistent beliefs and ideologies, a coalition of such followers can become cohesive and broad in part because each individual "compartmentalizes" their thoughts[231] and they are free to define their sense of the threatened tribal in-group[232] in their own terms, whether it is predominantly related to their cultural or religious views[233] (e.g. the mystery of evangelical support for Trump), nationalism[234] (e.g. the Make America Great Again slogan), or their race (maintaining a white majority).[235]
Altemeyer, MacWilliams, Feldman, Choma, Hancock, Van Assche and Pettigrew claim that instead of directly attempting to measure such ideological, racial or policy views, supporters of such movements can be reliably predicted by using two social psychology scales (singly or in combination), namely
In May 2019, Monmouth University Polling Institute conducted a study in collaboration with Altemeyer in order to empirically test the hypothesis using the SDO and RWA measures. The finding was that social dominance orientation and affinity for authoritarian leadership are highly correlated with followers of Trumpism.[236] Altemeyer's perspective and his use of an authoritarian scale and SDO to identify Trump followers is not uncommon. His study was a further confirmation of the earlier mentioned studies discussed in MacWilliams (2016), Feldman (2020), Choma and Hancock (2017), and Van Assche & Pettigrew (2016).[237]
The research does not imply that the followers always behave in an authoritarian manner but that expression is contingent, which means there is reduced influence if it is not triggered by fear and what the subject perceives as threats.
Basis in animal behavior
Former
Using the example of Yeroen, McAdams describes the similarities: "On Twitter, Trump's incendiary tweets are like Yeroen's charging displays. In chimp colonies, the alpha male occasionally goes berserk and starts screaming, hooting, and gesticulating wildly as he charges toward other males nearby. Pandemonium ensues as rival males cower in fear ... Once the chaos ends, there is a period of peace and order, wherein rival males pay homage to the alpha, visiting him, grooming him, and expressing various forms of submission. In Trump's case, his tweets are designed to intimidate his foes and rally his submissive base ... These verbal outbursts reinforce the president's dominance by reminding everybody of his wrath and his force."[243]
Primatologist Dame
McAdams points out the audience gets to vicariously share in the sense of dominance due to the parasocial bonding that his performance produces for his fans, as shown by Shira Gabriel's research studying the phenomenon in Trump's role in The Apprentice.[245] McAdams writes that the "television audience vicariously experienced the world according to Donald Trump", a world where Trump says "Man is the most vicious of all animals, and life is a series of battles ending in victory or defeat."[246]
Collective narcissism
Cultural anthropologist Paul Stoller thinks Trump masterfully employed the fundamentals of celebrity culture-glitz, illusion and fantasy to construct a shared alternate reality where lies become truth and reality's resistance to one's own dreams are overcome by the right attitude and bold self-confidence.[247] Trump's father indoctrinated his children from an early age into the sort of positive thinking approach to reality advocated by the family's pastor Norman Vincent Peale.[248] Trump boasted that Peale considered him the greatest student of his philosophy that regards facts as not important, because positive attitudes will instead cause what you "image" to materialize.[249] Trump biographer Gwenda Blair thinks Trump took Peale's self-help philosophy and "weaponized it".[250]
Social psychologists refer to this as
External videos | |
---|---|
Presentation by John Fea on Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, July 7, 2018, C-SPAN | |
Washington Journal interview with Fea on Believe Me, July 8, 2018, C-SPAN |
In his book Believe Me which details Trump's exploitation of white evangelical politics of fear,
According to Fea, the hopelessness of achieving such fanciful versions of an idealized past "causes us to imagine a future filled with horror" making anything unfamiliar the fodder for conspiratorial narratives that easily mobilize white evangelicals who cannot summon "the kind of spiritual courage necessary to overcome fear."[259] As a result, they not only embrace these fears but are easily captivated by a strongman such as Trump who repeats and amplifies their fears while posing as the deliverer from them. In his review of Fea's analysis of the impact of conspiracy theories on white evangelical Trump supporters, scholar of religious politics David Gutterman writes: "The greater the threat, the more powerful the deliverance." Gutterman's view is that "Donald J. Trump did not invent this formula; evangelicals have, in their lack of spiritual courage, demanded and gloried in this message for generations. Despite the literal biblical reassurance to 'fear not,' white evangelicals are primed for fear, their identity is stoked by fear, and the sources of fear are around every unfamiliar turn.[260]
Social theory scholar John Cash notes that disaster narratives of impending horrors have a broader audience than a single community whose identity is associated with specific collectively held certainties offered by white evangelical leaders, pointing to a 2010 Pew study which found that 41 percent of those in the US think that the world will either definitely or probably be destroyed by the middle of the century. Cash points out that certainties may be found in other narratives which also have the unifying effect of binding like minded individuals into shared "
Cash notes that all political systems must endure some such exposure to the lure of narcissism, fantasy, illogicality and distortion. Cash thinks that psychoanalytic theorist Joel Whitebook is correct that "Trumpism as a social experience can be understood as a
Cash makes comparisons to an
Although the leader possesses dominant ownership of the reality shared by the group, Lifton sees important differences between Trumpism and typical cults, such as not advancing a totalist ideology and that isolation from the outside world is not used to preserve group cohesion. Lifton does identify multiple similarities with the kinds of cults disparaging the fake world that outsiders are deluded by in preference for their true reality—a world that transcends the illusions and false information created by the cult's titanic enemies. Persuasion techniques similar to those of cults are used such as indoctrination employing constant echoing of catch phrases (via rally response, retweet, or Facebook share), or in participatory response to the guru's like utterances either in person or in online settings. Examples include the use of call and response ("Clinton" triggers "lock her up"; "immigrants" triggers "build that wall"; "who will pay for it?" triggers "Mexico"), thereby deepening the sense of participation with the transcendent unity between the leader and the community.[263] Participants and observers at rallies have remarked on the special kind of liberating feeling that is often experienced which Lifton calls a "high state" that "can even be called experiences of transcendence".[264]
Conservative culture commentator David Brooks observes that under Trump, this post-truth mindset heavily reliant on conspiracy themes came to dominate Republican identity, providing its believers a sense of superiority since such insiders possess important information most people do not have.[267] This results in an empowering sense of agency[268] with the liberation, entitlement and group duty to reject "experts" and the influence of hidden cabals seeking to dominate them.[267] Social media amplify the power of members to promote and expand their connections with like minded believers in insular alternate reality echo chambers.[269] Social psychology and cognitive science research shows that individuals seek information and communities that confirm their views and that even those with critical thinking skills sufficient to identify false claims with non political material cannot do so when interpreting factual material that does not conform to political beliefs.[note 22]
While such media-enabled departures from shared, fact-based reality dates at least as far back as 1439 with the appearance of the
Given their effectiveness as an emotional tool, Brooks thinks such sharing of conspiracy theories has become the most powerful community bonding mechanism of the 21st century.
Some social psychologists see the predisposition of Trumpists towards interpreting social interactions in terms of dominance frameworks as extending to their relationship towards facts. A study by Felix Sussenbach and Adam B. Moore found that the dominance motive strongly correlated with hostility towards disconfirming facts and affinity for conspiracies among 2016 Trump voters but not among Clinton voters.[279] Many critics note Trump's skill in exploiting narrative, emotion, and a whole host of rhetorical ploys to draw supporters into the group's common adventure[280] as characters in a story much bigger than themselves.[281]
It is a story that involves not just a community-building call to arms to defeat titanic threats,[179] or of the leader's heroic deeds restoring American greatness, but of a restoration of each supporter's individual sense of liberty and power to control their lives.[282] Trump channels and amplifies these aspirations, explaining in one of his books that his bending of the truth is effective because it plays to people's greatest fantasies.[283] By contrast, Clinton was dismissive of such emotion-filled storytelling and ignored the emotional dynamics of the Trumpist narrative.[284]
Media and pillarization
Culture industry
Trumpism is from Lebow's perspective, more of a result of this process than a cause.[290] In the intervening years since Adorno's work, Lebow believes the culture industry has evolved into a politicizing culture market "based increasingly on the internet, constituting a self-referential hyperreality shorn from any reality of referants ... sensationalism and insulation intensify intolerance of dissonance and magnify hostility against alternative hyperrealities. In a self-reinforcing logic of escalation, intolerance and hostility further encourage sensationalism and the retreat into insularity."[290][note 26] From Gordon's view, "Trumpism itself, one could argue, is just another name for the culture industry, where the performance of undoing repression serves as a means for carrying on precisely as before."[292]
From this viewpoint, the susceptibility to psychological manipulation of individuals with social dominance inclinations is not at the center of Trumpism, but is instead the "culture industry" which exploits these and other susceptibilities by using mechanisms that condition people to think in standardized ways.[94] The burgeoning culture industry respects no political boundaries as it develops these markets with Gordon emphasizing "This is true on the left as well as the right, and it is especially noteworthy once we countenance what passes for political discourse today. Instead of a public sphere, we have what Jürgen Habermas long ago called the refeudalization of society."[293]
What Kreiss calls an "identity-based account of media" is important for understanding Trump's success because "citizens understand politics and accept information through the lens of partisan identity. ... The failure to come to grips with a socially embedded public and an identity group–based democracy has placed significant limits on our ability to imagine a way forward for journalism and media in the Trump era. As Fox News and
Profitability of spectacle and outrage
Examining trumpism as an entertainment product, some media research focuses on the heavy reliance on
Media critic David Denby writes, "Like a good standup comic, Trump invites the audience to join him in the adventure of delivering his act—in this case, the barbarously entertaining adventure of running a Presidential campaign that insults everybody." Denby's claim is that Trump is simply good at delivering the kind of political entertainment product consumers demand. He observes that "The movement's standard of allowable behavior has been formed by popular culture—by standup comedy and, recently, by reality TV and by the snarking, trolling habits of the Internet. You can't effectively say that Donald Trump is vulgar, sensational, and buffoonish when it's exactly vulgar sensationalism and buffoonery that his audience is buying. Donald Trump has been produced by America."[280]
Although Trump's outrage discourse was characterized by fictional assertions, mean spirited attacks against various groups and dog whistle appeals to racial and religious intolerance, media executives could not ignore its profitability. CBS's CEO Les Moonves remarked that "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS,"[298] demonstrating how Trumpism's form of messaging and the commercial goals of media companies are not only compatible but mutually lucrative.[299] Peter Wehner, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center considers Trump a political "shock jock" who "thrives on creating disorder, in violating rules, in provoking outrage."[300]
The political profitability of incivility was demonstrated by the extraordinary amount of free airtime gifted to Trump's 2016 primary campaign—estimated at two billion dollars,[301] which according to media tracking companies grew to almost five billion by the end of the national campaign.[302] The advantage of incivility was as true in social media, where "a BuzzFeed analysis found that the top 20 fake election news stories emanating from hoax sites and hyperpartisan blogs generated more engagement on Facebook (as measured by shares, reactions, and comments) than the top 20 election stories produced by 19 major news outlets combined, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and NBC News."[303]
Social media
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump My use of social media is not Presidential – it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!
July 1, 2017[304]
Surveying research of how Trumpist communication is well suited to social media, Brian Ott writes that, "commentators who have studied Trump's public discourse have observed speech patterns that correspond closely to what I identified as Twitter's three defining features [Simplicity, impulsivity, and incivility]."[305] Media critic Neal Gabler has a similar viewpoint writing that "What FDR was to radio and JFK to television, Trump is to Twitter."[306] Outrage discourse expert Patrick O'Callaghan argues that social media is most effective when it utilizes the particular type of communication which Trump relies on. O'Callaghan notes that sociologist Sarah Sobieraj and political scientist Jeffrey M. Berry almost perfectly described in 2011 the social media communication style used by Trump long before his presidential campaign.[307]
They explained that such discourse "[involves] efforts to provoke visceral responses (e.g., anger, righteousness, fear, moral indignation) from the audience through the use of overgeneralizations, sensationalism, misleading or patently inaccurate information, ad hominem attacks, and partial truths about opponents, who may be individuals, organizations, or entire communities of interest (e.g., progressives or conservatives) or circumstance (e.g., immigrants). Outrage sidesteps the messy nuances of complex political issues in favor of melodrama, misrepresentative exaggeration, mockery, and improbable forecasts of impending doom. Outrage talk is not so much discussion as it is verbal competition, political theater with a scorecard."[308]
Due to Facebook's and Twitter's narrowcasting environment in which outrage discourse thrives,[note 27] Trump's employment of such messaging at almost every opportunity was from O'Callaghan's account extremely effective because tweets and posts were repeated in viral fashion among like minded supporters, thereby rapidly building a substantial information echo chamber,[310] a phenomenon Cass Sunstein identifies as group polarization,[311] and other researchers refer to as a kind of self re-enforcing homophily.[312][note 28] Within these information cocoons, it matters little to social media companies whether much of the information spread in such pillarized information silos is false, because as digital culture critic Olivia Solon points out, "the truth of a piece of content is less important than whether it is shared, liked, and monetized."[315]
Citing Pew Research's survey that found 62% of US adults get their news from social media,[316] Ott expresses alarm, "since the 'news' content on social media regularly features fake and misleading stories from sources devoid of editorial standards."[317] Media critic Alex Ross is similarly alarmed, observing, "Silicon Valley monopolies have taken a hands-off, ideologically vacant attitude toward the upswelling of ugliness on the Internet," and that "the failure of Facebook to halt the proliferation of fake news during the [Trump vs. Clinton] campaign season should have surprised no one. ... Traffic trumps ethics."[286]
O'Callaghan's analysis of Trump's use of social media is that "outrage hits an emotional nerve and is therefore grist to the populist's or the social antagonist's mill. Secondly, the greater and the more widespread the outrage discourse, the more it has a detrimental effect on social capital. This is because it leads to mistrust and misunderstanding amongst individuals and groups, to entrenched positions, to a feeling of 'us versus them'. So understood, outrage discourse not only produces extreme and polarising views but also ensures that a cycle of such views continues. (Consider also in this context Wade Robison (2020) on the 'contagion of passion'[318] and Cass Sunstein (2001, pp. 98–136)[note 29] on 'cybercascades'.)"[310] Ott agrees, stating that contagion is the best word to describe the viral nature of outrage discourse on social media, and writing that "Trump's simple, impulsive, and uncivil Tweets do more than merely reflect sexism, racism, homophobia, and xenophobia; they spread those ideologies like a social cancer."[47]
Robison warns that emotional contagion should not be confused with the contagion of passions that James Madison and David Hume were concerned with.[note 30] Robison states they underestimated the contagion of passions mechanism at work in movements, whose modern expressions include the surprising phenomena of rapidly mobilized social media supporters behind both the Arab Spring and the Trump presidential campaign writing, "It is not that we experience something and then, assessing it, become passionate about it, or not", and implying that "we have the possibility of a check on our passions." Robison's view is that the contagion affects the way reality itself is experienced by supporters because it leverages how subjective certainty is triggered, so that those experiencing the contagiously shared alternate reality are unaware they have taken on a belief they should assess.[320]
Similar movements, politicians and personalities
Historical background in the United States
The roots of Trumpism in the United States can be traced to the
Morris agrees with Mead, locating Trumpism's roots in the Jacksonian era from 1828 to 1848 under the presidencies of Jackson, Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk. On Morris's view, Trumpism also shares similarities with the post-World War I faction of the progressive movement which catered to a conservative populist recoil from the looser morality of the cosmopolitan cities and America's changing racial complexion.[322] In his book The Age of Reform (1955), historian Richard Hofstadter identified this faction's emergence when "a large part of the Progressive-Populist tradition had turned sour, became illiberal and ill-tempered."[324]
Prior to World War II, conservative themes of Trumpism were expressed in the
Writing in
Championed by
Ignoring the findings of the report and the party establishment in his campaign, Trump was "opposed by more officials in his own Party ... than any Presidential nominee in recent American history," but at the same time he won "more votes" in the Republican primaries than any previous presidential candidate. By 2016, "people wanted somebody to throw a brick through a plate-glass window", in the words of political analyst Karl Rove.[220] His success in the party was such that an October 2020 poll found 58% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents surveyed considered themselves supporters of Trump rather than the Republican Party.[327]
Parallels with fascism and trend towards illiberal democracy
Trumpism has been likened to Machiavellianism and to Benito Mussolini's Italian fascism.[d]
American historian
Argentine historian
In How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, Turkish author
Political scientist
Others emphasize the lack of interest in finding real solutions to the social malaise which have been identified, and they also believe those individuals and groups who are executing policy are actually following a pattern which has been identified by sociology researchers like Leo Löwenthal and Norbert Guterman as originating in the post-World War II work of the Frankfurt School of social theory. Based on this perspective, books such as Löwenthal and Guterman's Prophets of Deceit offer the best insights into how movements like Trumpism dupe their followers by perpetuating their misery and preparing them to move further towards an illiberal form of government.[118]
Rush Limbaugh
Trump is considered by some analysts to be following a blueprint of leveraging outrage, which was developed on partisan cable TV and talk radio shows[310] such as the Rush Limbaugh radio show—a style that transformed talk radio and American conservative politics decades before Trump.[343] Both shared "media fame" and "over-the-top showmanship", and built an enormous fan base with politics-as-entertainment,[343] attacking political and cultural targets in ways that would have been considered indefensible and beyond the pale in the years before them.[344]
Both featured "the insults, the nicknames"
Both attacked Black quarterbacks (Limbaugh criticizing Donovan McNabb,[344] Trump Colin Kaepernick); both mocked people with disabilities, with Limbaugh flapping his arms in imitation of the Parkinson's disease of Michael J. Fox, and Trump doing the same to imitate the arthrogryposis of reporter Serge F. Kovaleski, although he later denied he had done so.[344]
Limbaugh, to whom Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020, preceded Trump in moving the Republican Party away from "serious and substantive opinion leaders and politicians", towards political provocation, entertainment, and anti-intellectualism, and popularizing and normalizing for "many Republican politicians and voters" what before his rise "they might have thought" but would have "felt uncomfortable saying".[note 32] His millions of fans were intensely loyal and "developed a capacity to excuse ... and deflect" his statements no matter how offensive and outrageous, "saying liberals were merely being hysterical or hateful. And many loved him even more for it."[344]
Future impact
Writing in The Atlantic, Yaseem Serhan states Trump's post-impeachment claim that "our historic, patriotic, and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun," should be taken seriously as Trumpism is a "personality-driven" populist movement, and other such movements—such as Berlusconism in Italy, Peronism in Argentina and Fujimorism in Peru, "rarely fade once their leaders have left office".[345] Joseph Lowndes, a professor of political science at the University of Oregon, argued that while current far-right Republicans support Trump, the faction rose before and will likely exist after Trump.[346] Bobby Jindal and Alex Castellanos wrote in Newsweek that separating Trumpism from Donald Trump himself was key to the Republican Party's future following his loss in the 2020 United States presidential election.[347]
In 2024, President Kevin Roberts of The Heritage Foundation stated that he sees the role of Heritage as "institutionalizing Trumpism."[348]
Economic policy
In terms of economic policy, Trumpism "promises new jobs and more domestic investment".
Foreign policy
In terms of foreign policy in the sense of
Beyond the United States
Canada
This article is part of a series on |
Conservatism in Canada |
---|
According to
Rock cautioned that Canada must "keep up its guard against the spread of Trumpism",[363] which he described as "destabilizing", "crude", "nationalistic", "ugly", "divisive", "racist", and "angry";[369] Rock added that one measurable impact on Canada of the "overtly racist behaviour" associated with Trumpism is that racists and white supremacists have become emboldened since 2016, resulting in a steep increase in the number of these organizations in Canada and a shockingly high increase in the rate of hate crimes in 2017 and 2018 in Canada.[369]
Maclean's and the Star, cited the research of Frank Graves who has been studying the rise of populism in Canada for a number of years. In a June 30, 2020 School of Public Policy journal article, he co-authored, the authors described a decrease in trust in the news and in journalists since 2011 in Canada, along with an increase in skepticism which "reflects the emergent fake news convictions so evident in supporters of Trumpian populism."
According to an October 2020 Léger poll for 338Canada of Canadian voters, the number of "pro-Trump conservatives" has been growing in Canada's
In a September 8, 2020 CBC interview, when asked if his "Canada First" policy was different from Trump's "America First" policy, O'Toole said, "No, it was not."[373] In his August 24, 2019 speech conceding the victory of his successor Erin O'Toole as the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party, Andrew Scheer cautioned Canadians to not believe the "narrative" from mainstream media outlets but to "challenge" and "double check ... what they see on TV on the internet" by consulting "smart, independent, objective organizations like The Post Millennial and True North.[374][365] The Observer said Jeff Ballingall, who is the founder of the right-wing Ontario Proud,[375] and is also the Chief Marketing Officer of The Post Millennial.[376]
Following the 2020 United States elections, National Post columnist and former newspaper "magnate", Conrad Black, who had had a "decades-long" friendship with Trump, and received a presidential pardon in 2019, in his columns, repeated Trump's "unfounded claims of mass voter fraud" suggesting that the election had been stolen.[371][377]
Europe
Trumpism has also been said to be on the rise in Europe. Political parties such as the Finns Party,[378] France's National Rally[379] and Spain's far-right Vox party[380] have been described as Trumpist in nature. Trump's former advisor Steve Bannon called Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán "Trump before Trump".[381]
Brazil
In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, sometimes referred to as the "Brazilian Donald Trump",[382] who is often described as a right-wing extremist,[383][384] sees Trump as a role model[385] and according to Jason Stanley uses the same fascist tactics.[386] Like Trump, Bolsonaro finds support among evangelicals for his views on culture war issues.[387] Along with allies he publicly questioned Joe Biden's vote tally after the November election.[388]
Nigeria
According to
After Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, IPOB leader
According to John Campbell of Council on Foreign Relations, Trump's popularity in Nigeria can be explained by a "manifestation of the widespread disillusionment in a country characterized by growing poverty, multiple security threats, an expanding crime wave, and a government seen as unresponsive and corrupt", and his popularity is likely to be reflective of wealthier urban Nigerians rather than the majority of Nigerians who live in rural areas or urban slums and are unlikely to have strong opinions on Trump.[396]
Iran
Donald Trump and his policy towards Iran has been praised by the Iranian opposition group 'Restart', led by
Restart has been compared to QAnon by Ariane Tabatabai, in terms of "conspiracist thinking going global".[397] Among conspiracy theories advocated by the group is that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has died (or went into coma) in 2017 and a double plays his role in public.[398]
Japan
In Japan, in a speech to Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers in Tokyo on 8 March 2019, Steve Bannon said that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was "Trump before Trump" and "a great hero to the grassroots, the populist, and the nationalist movement throughout the world."[399] Shinzo Abe was described as a "right-wing nationalist" or "ultra-nationalist",[400][401] but whether he was a "populist" is controversial.[402]
South Korea
The politics of
Philippines
See also
- Enemy of the people
- Firehose of falsehood
- List of conspiracy theories promoted by Donald Trump
- Radical right (United States)
- Reality distortion field
Organizations
- America First Policies
- Conservative Partnership Institute
- Freedom Caucus
- John Birch Society
- MAGA Inc.
- Project 2025
- Republican Accountability
- The Lincoln Project
Notes
- ^ The Albert Lea Tribune's description of the scene at the September 13, 2020, "United We Stand & Patriots March for America" was that "[p]eople rallied outside the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul on Saturday in support of President Trump, and against statewide pandemic policies they say are infringing on personal freedoms and damaging the economy. ... Some in the crowd carried long guns and wore body armor." There were physical confrontations resulting in the arrest of two counter-protesters.[1]
- Stop the Steal conspiracy theory of electoral fraud, Trumpists acted after being told minutes prior by Trump to "fight like hell" to "take back our country",[2][3] with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani calling for "trial by combat",[4] and son Donald Trump Jr. in the prior week warning "we are coming for you" and calling for "total war" over election results.[5][6]
- ^ Cornel West uses the term neofascist. Badiou describes Trump signaling the birth of a "new fascism" or "democratic fascism",[63] while Traverso prefers the term postfascist to describe "new faces of fascism" such as Trump or Silvio Berlusconi who advance a model of democracy "that destroys any process of collective deliberation in favour of a relationship that merges people and leader, the nation and its chief."[64] By contrast, Tarizzo describes Trump as part of what Pier Paolo Pasolini called new fascism[65] employing a "political grammar" analysis which shares similar perspectives on ties between new fascism and dystopian economics argued in the analyses of Giroux, West, Hedges and Badiou. Chomsky instead uses the term authoritarianism.
- ^ Giroux notes that "Trump is not Hitler in that he has not created concentration camps, shut down the critical media or rounded up dissidents; moreover, the United States at the current historical moment is not the Weimar Republic."[67] Tarizzo writes that both paleofascism and new fascism undermine the fundamentals of modern democracy, but the new mode of fascism "does not do this by absolutizing popular sovereignty at the expense of individual rights. New fascism celebrates our freedoms and absolutizes human rights to the detriment of our sense of belonging to a social-political community."[30]
- ^ For a wide ranging review and critique of the use of the term fascist to describe Trump as of late 2017, see Carl Boggs' postscript chapter in his book Fascism Old and New.[70]
- ^ Papacharissi notes that examples can also be found on the left for the use of open signifiers when affectively engaging their bases ("publics").[85]
- ^ Ann Stoler makes a similar observation writing, "These are divisive cuts through our social, political, and affective landscapes that are not eruptions, as they are so often described. Rather, these figures [Trump, Le Pen, and Wilders] register deep tectonic shifts not readily visible with the conceptual tools at hand, nor by the metrics we have used to measure durable sensibilities or to capture sonics to which we are so adverse, askew to our shared radars. Prevailing political categories and concepts may now seem inadequate or inoperative."[95]
- S2CID 145669733.
- ^ Jones elaborates on her view that trust is central to epistemology in a chapter entitled "Trusting Interpretations" which appeared in the book "Trust- Analytic and Applied Perspectives".[114]
- Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse) who studied the sudden victory of fascism in Germany offer the best insights into Trumpism. These similarities include the rhetoric of self-aggrandizement, victimhood, accusation, and his solicitation of unconditional support for his leadership which alone can return the country from the moral and political decay it has fallen into.[118]
- ^ David Livingstone Smith, a scholar of history, psychology and anthropology, goes into greater detail on the similarities between Trump and the fascist pattern of persuasion described by Roger Money-Kyrle, who witnessed fascist rallies in 1930s Germany. The psychological linkage between the leader and supporters in mass rallies, the melancholia-paranoia-megalomania pattern, recitation of shared domestic dreads, promotion of fear mongering conspiracy theories painting out-groups as the cause of the problems, simplified solutions presented in absolute terms and the promotion of a singular leader capable of returning the country to its former greatness.[120]
- ^ Described as "the sociologist who studied Trump's base before Trump",[122] Michael Kimmel examined the relationship between masculinity and radicalization of pre-Trump supporters. In his 2018 book Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into—and Out of—Violent Extremism Kimmel describes a theme he "came to call 'aggrieved entitlement', a sense of righteous indignation, of undeserved victimhood in a world suddenly dominated by political correctness. The rewards these white men felt had been promised for a lifetime of, as they saw it, playing by the rules that someone else had established had suddenly dried up—or, as they saw it, the water had been diverted to far less deserving 'others'" who "were not worthy of the rewards they were now reaping, because 'they' were not 'real men.'"[123]
- ^ The 88% figure is based on the CBS news report that as of April 16, 2021, 45 out of the 370 arrested were arrested were women.[136]
- ^ For an elaboration of the fascist idea and political force of leader viewed as an anointed one, or a messiah, see:
- ISBN 0306805146.
- ^ Multiple prominent members of the faith community including the Bishop of the diocese objected to Trump's use of the Bible as a prop.[165] Evangelical supporters variously saw the event as proclaiming victory in a world of evil, that Trump was figuratively putting on the Armor of God, or was beginning a "Jericho walk".[166]
- ^ A reference to a metaphor found at the close of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address. Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker explains the impact of these appeals in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature.
- ^ For a detailed description of this evocation of intense collective emotions in order to engineer group identity, see Cui 2018. Cui writes: "The collective emotions that audiences feel during media events is the modern day equivalent of the collective effervescence in totemic worship (Dayan & Katz, 1992). In primitive societies, intense feelings about the collectivity are generated through the participants physically enacting rituals together. Possessed by these intense feelings, they experience themselves as sharing the collective identity represented by the symbolism in the rituals. In sophisticated industrial societies, people often participate in rituals through the media. Through the live broadcast of ceremonial events, a geographically dispersed population can be temporally synchronized through the symbolic representation of a higher reality. The intense collective emotions these events generate reinforce social identity (Jiménez-Martínez, 2014; Uimonen, 2015; Widholm, 2016)."[178]
- Obamacare would "destroy American health care forever"; Kenneth Burke referred to this "all or none" staging as characteristic of "burlesque" rhetoric.[182] Instead of a world involving a variety of complex situations requiring nuanced solutions acceptable to a multiplicity of interested groups, for the agitator the world is a simple stage populated by two irreconcilable groups and dramatic action involves decisions with simple either-or choices. Because all players and issues are painted using black and white terms, there is no possibility of working out a common solution.[183]
- ^ Elaina Plott covers the Republican Party and conservatism as a national political reporter for The New York Times. In her in-depth article on how Trump has remade the Republican Party, Plott interviewed thirty or so Republican officials.
- universal healthcare or the Green New Deal.
- ^ The measure is a refinement of the authoritarian personality theory published in 1950 by researchers Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel Levinson and Nevitt Sanford. Despite its name, RWA measures predisposition towards authoritarianism regardless of political orientation.
- ^ One Yale/NSF-funded study asked participants to evaluate data on a skin-cream product's efficacy. People with good math skills could interpret the data correctly but once politics was introduced, with data demonstrating whether gun control decreased or increased crime, the same participants, whether liberal or conservative, who were good at math, misinterpreted the results to conform to their political leanings. This study disconfirms the "science comprehension thesis" and supports the "identity-protective cognition thesis" explanations for inability to agree on shared facts having to do with politicized public policy.[270]
- ^ The skull with Trump hair refers to the Punisher comic book vigilante serial killer who murders those he considers evil. More stylized Punisher images appeared on patches worn by some rioters in combat attire, multiple police at Black lives matter protests[275] and frequently as a Sean Hannity's lapel pin.[276]
- ^ For instance in the introduction to his book Making Sport Great Again, Andrews writes, "The prescience of much Frankfurt School theorizing informs this analysis of the relationship between ubersport as a popular culture industry, the politics of neoliberal America, and Trump's cacophonous political-cultural-economic project."[285]
- One Dimensional Man. Horkheimer and Adorno's "ticket" metaphor refers to the political party sense of a slate of candidates and policies that followers expect to vote for in its entirety because they have come to believe that the ideas from the opposing political blocs are so irreconcilable their political power is simplified to a binary choice which despite the intense rhetoric reduces them to passive observers of the spectacle.[289]
- ^ Political scientist Matthew McManus makes a similar observation writing that Trump is the culmination of this trend towards pillarized tribalistic market niches where the hyperpartisan discourses characteristic of Fox News in the US or Hír TV in Hungary have displaced nuanced analysis.[291]
- ^ One of Sobieraj and Berry's key findings was that, "Outrage thrives in a narrowcasting environment."[309]
- ^ Homophily is the sociological term corresponding to the saying "Birds of a feather flock together." Pointing to a 2015 Pew Research Center study revealing that the average Facebook user has five politically like-minded friends for every one from the opposing end of the spectrum,[313] like Massachs et al. (2020), Samantha Power takes note of the combination of social media and homophily's self-reinforcing impact on our perceived world writing, "The information that comes to us has increasingly been tailored to appeal to our prior prejudices, and it is unlikely to be challenged by the like-minded with whom we interact day-to-day."[314]
- ^ The 2001 reference is to an earlier edition of Sunstein's Republic.com. An updated chapter on cybercascades may be found in his Republic.com 2.0 (2007).[319]
- city-states of ancient Greece failed because in small cities, sentiments could rapidly spread in the population, meaning agitators were "more likely to succeed in sweeping aside the old order". Madison responded to this threat of tyrannical majority factions unified by a shared sentiment in Federalist paper number 10 with the argument (Robison's paraphrase): "In an extensive country, distance immunizes citizens from the contagion of passions and hinders their coordination even when passions are shared."[318]Robison thinks this portion of Madison's argument is obsolete due to the near instantaneous social media sharing of sentiments wherever we are due to the commonplace use of wirelessly connected handheld devices.
- S2CID 226426921.
- ^ Quotes are from Brian Rosenwald, described as "a Harvard scholar who tracks disinformation in talk radio."[344]
- ^ Attributed to multiple sources:[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]
- ^ Attributed to multiple sources:[18][19][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][21][22][23][24][42][25][26][27][28][29][30]
- ^ Kelly left Fox in 2017
- ^ Attributed to multiple sources:[329][330][331][332][333][334][335]
References
- ^ Hovland 2020.
- ^ McCarthy, Ho & Greve 2021.
- ^ Andersen 2021.
- ^ Blake 2021.
- ^ Haberman 2021.
- ^ da Silva 2020.
- from the original on December 15, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
- from the original on December 8, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
- from the original on December 9, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
- ^ Arnsdorf, Isaac; Dawsey, Josh; Barrett, Devlin (November 5, 2023). "Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 5, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
- ^ Colvin, Jill; Barrow, Bill (December 8, 2023). "Trump's vow to only be a dictator on 'day one' follows growing worry over his authoritarian rhetoric". AP News. Archived from the original on December 8, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
- ^ Stone, Peter (November 22, 2023). "'Openly authoritarian campaign': Trump's threats of revenge fuel alarm". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 27, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
- ^ a b Beinart, Peter (January 2019). "The New Authoritarians Are Waging War on Women". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on January 27, 2024. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
- ^ Breslin, Maureen (November 8, 2021). "Former aide: Trump would 'absolutely' impose some form of autocracy in second term". The Hill. Archived from the original on September 25, 2023. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
- from the original on June 10, 2022. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
- from the original on September 25, 2023. Retrieved September 25, 2023.
- ^ a b Kaul 2021.
- ^ (PDF) from the original on January 14, 2024. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
The decoupling of the man from the movement suggests that authoritarianism can continue well beyond the authoritarian's rule. The most enduring vestige—apart from the democratic institutions attacked—is Trumpism. It has metastasized from Trump's delusional framing on his inauguration day in 2017—with the biggest crowds ever—to a widespread and ambient movement, amplified by disinformation and distortion, broadcast in social and right-wing media, aggressively militant, and framed with falsehoods.
- ^ a b c Shapiro, Ari; Intagliata, Christopher; Venkat, Mia (May 13, 2021). "The U.S. Is Headed Away From The Ideals Of Democracy, Says Author Masha Gessen". All Things Considered. NPR. Archived from the original on September 14, 2021. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
- ^ Kellner 2018.
- ^ a b c Badiou 2019, p. 19.
- ^ a b c Giroux 2021.
- ^ a b c Ibish 2020.
- ^ a b c Cockburn 2020.
- ^ a b c West 2020.
- ^ a b c d Gorski 2019.
- ^ a b c Benjamin 2020.
- ^ a b c Morris 2019, p. 10.
- ^ a b c McGaughey 2018.
- ^ a b c d Tarizzo 2021, p. 163.
- ^ a b Hopkin & Blyth 2020.
- ^ Reicher & Haslam 2016.
- ^ a b Dean & Altemeyer 2020, p. 11.
- ^ "Trump's world: The new nationalism". The Economist. November 19, 2016. Archived from the original on August 24, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
- ^ "The growing peril of national conservatism". The Economist. February 15, 2024. Archived from the original on February 15, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ^ Rushkoff, Douglas (July 7, 2016). "The New Nationalism Of Brexit And Trump Is A Product Of The Digital Age". Fast Company. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
- ^ Goldberg, Jonah (August 16, 2016). "'New nationalism' amounts to generic white identity politics". Newsday. Archived from the original on November 26, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
To listen to both his defenders and critics, Donald Trump represents the U.S. version of a new nationalism popping up around the world.
- ^ Beauchamp, Zack (July 17, 2019). "Trump and the dead end of conservative nationalism". Vox. Archived from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2023.
- ^ a b Butler 2016.
- ^ a b Chomsky 2020.
- ^ a b Berkeley News 2020.
- ^ a b Drutman 2021.
- from the original on January 17, 2024. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
- ^ Baker, Perry & Whitehead 2020.
- ^ a b c Yang 2018.
- ^ Mason, Wronski & Kane 2021.
- ^ a b Ott 2017, p. 64.
- ^ Hamilton 2024.
- ^ Tollefson 2021.
- ^ a b Lange 2024.
- ^ Whitehead, Perry & Baker 2018.
- ^ Irwin, Douglas A. (April 17, 2017). "The False Promise of Protectionism". Foreign Affairs. 96 (May/June 2017). Archived from the original on January 27, 2024. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ "Donald Trump's second term would be a protectionist nightmare". The Economist. October 31, 2023. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ "America's far right is increasingly protesting against LGBT people". The Economist. January 13, 2023. Archived from the original on May 24, 2023. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
- ^ Gordon 2018, p. 68.
- ISSN 2045-3817.
- ^ Lowndes 2019.
- ^ Bennhold 2020.
- ^ Isaac 2017.
- ^ Foster 2017.
- ^ Traverso 2017, p. 30.
- ^ Attributed to multiple sources:[39][40][41][21][22][61][30][23][24][42][25]
- ^ Badiou 2019, p. 15.
- ^ Traverso 2017, p. 35.
- ^ a b Tarizzo 2021, p. 178.
- ^ Kagan 2016.
- ^ Giroux 2017.
- ^ Evans 2021.
- ^ Weber 2021.
- ^ Boggs 2018, pp. 195–205.
- ^ Sundahl 2022.
- ^ Haltiwanger, John (March 4, 2021). "Republicans have built a cult of personality around Trump that glosses over his disgraced presidency". Business Insider. Archived from the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- from the original on August 31, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- ^ Ben-Ghiat, Ruth (December 9, 2020). "Op-Ed: Trump's formula for building a lasting personality cult". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- ^ "Isabel Díaz Ayuso, una 'estrella del pop' y la "alumna más aventajada del 'trumpismo' en España"". www.lasexta.com (in Spanish). February 25, 2022. Archived from the original on February 25, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
- ^ "Ayuso: qué hay detrás de la Trump española". elDiario.es (in Spanish). May 22, 2023. Archived from the original on February 25, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
- S2CID 211443408. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^ Continetti 2020.
- ^ de la Torre et al. 2019, p. 6.
- ^ Brewster 2020.
- ^ Jutel 2019.
- ^ Kimmel 2017, p. xi.
- ^ Kimmel & Wade 2018, p. 243.
- ^ Kimmel 2017, p. 18.
- ^ a b Boler & Davis 2021, p. 62.
- ^ de la Torre et al. 2019, pp. 6, 37, 50, 102, 206.
- ^ Fuchs 2018, pp. 83–84.
- ^ Kuhn 2017.
- ^ Serwer 2017.
- from the original on November 12, 2023. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
- from the original on November 12, 2023. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-19-088044-6, retrieved November 12, 2023
- from the original on November 12, 2023. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
- ^ a b Gordon 2018, p. 79.
- ^ Stoler 2020, p. 117.
- ^ Tucker 2018, p. 134.
- ^ Hidalgo-Tenorio & Benítez-Castro 2021.
- ^ Laclau 2005, p. 11.
- from the original on November 12, 2023. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
- ^ Carpini 2018, pp. 18–19.
- ^ Jacquemet 2020, p. 187.
- ^ Plasser & Ulram 2003.
- ^ Jutel 2019, pp. 249, 255.
- ^ Johnson 2018.
- ^ Postman 2005, p. 106.
- ^ Ott 2017, p. 66.
- ^ Beer 2021.
- ^ Kreiss 2018, pp. 93, 94.
- ^ Hochschild 2016, p. 126.
- ^ Jutel 2019, pp. 250, 256.
- ^ Richardson 2017.
- ^ Pybus 2015, p. 239.
- ^ a b Jones 2019.
- ^ Jones 2013.
- ^ a b Stenner & Haidt 2018.
- ^ Matthews 2020.
- ^ West 2016.
- ^ a b c Clavey 2020.
- ^ Goldberg 2020.
- ^ Smith 2020, pp. 119–121.
- ^ Will 2020.
- ^ Conroy 2017.
- ^ Kimmel 2018, pp. xii–xiii.
- ^ Colvin 2020.
- ^ Bazail-Eimil, Eric (September 29, 2023). "Milley in farewell speech: 'We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator'". Politico. Archived from the original on November 13, 2023. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^ Lillis, Katie Bo (September 29, 2023). "Milley says the military doesn't swear oath to a 'wannabe dictator' in apparent swipe at Trump". CNN. Archived from the original on November 13, 2023. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^ Kimmel 2018, p. xiii.
- ^ a b Theidon 2020.
- ^ Liu 2016.
- ^ Jacobs 2016.
- ^ Vescio & Schermerhorn 2021.
- ^ Hoad 2020.
- ^ Clemens 2017.
- ^ Barrett & Zapotosky 2021.
- ^ Pape 2021.
- ^ Hymes, McDonald & Watson 2021.
- ^ Brookings 2020.
- ^ Pew Research, April 26, 2017.
- ^ Gorski 2019, p. 166.
- ^ Ophir 2020, p. 180.
- ^ a b Horton 2020.
- ^ Fea 2018, p. 108, (epub edition).
- ^ a b Hedges 2020.
- ^ Jaeger 1985, p. 54.
- ^ Jaeger 1985, p. 58.
- ^ Jaeger 1985, p. 84.
- ^ Fea 2018, pp. 105–112, 148, (epub edition).
- ^ CBS News, September 29, 2020.
- ^ Galli 2019.
- ^ Jeffress & Fea 2016, audio location 10:48.
- ^ Mullen 2018.
- ^ Jeffress & Wehner 2016, audio location 8:20.
- ^ Gryboski 2012.
- ^ Tashman 2011.
- ^ Jeffress 2011, pp. 18, 29, 30–31.
- ^ Henderson 2017.
- ^ Moore 2017.
- ^ a b Shellnutt 2017.
- ^ Blair 2020.
- ^ Wehner 2016.
- ^ Wehner 2019.
- ^ Wehner 2020.
- ^ Cox 2016.
- ^ Jeffress & Fea 2016, audio location 8:50.
- ^ Shabad et al. 2020.
- ^ Teague 2020.
- ^ a b Boyd 2005, pp. 9, 34, 87–88, (epub edition).
- ^ Fea 2018, pp. 147, 165–170, (epub edition).
- ^ Dreher 2020.
- ^ Lewis 2020.
- ^ Hilditch 2020.
- ^ Green 2021.
- ^ Hochschild 2016, pp. 8, 14, 223.
- ^ Thompson 2020.
- ^ NYTimes11_09 2016.
- ^ Hochschild 2016, pp. 230, 234.
- ^ Hochschild 2016, p. 223.
- ^ Cui 2018, p. 95.
- ^ a b Marietta et al. 2017, p. 330.
- ^ Tarnoff 2016.
- ^ Marietta et al. 2017, pp. 313, 317.
- ^ Appel 2018, pp. 162–163.
- ^ Löwenthal & Guterman 1970, pp. 92–95.
- ^ Löwenthal & Guterman 1970, p. 93.
- ^ Smith 2020, p. 121.
- ^ a b Connolly 2017, p. 13.
- ^ Money-Kyrle 2015, pp. 166–168.
- ^ Pulido et al. 2019.
- ^ Cegielski 2016.
- ^ Danner 2016.
- ^ Schneiker 2018.
- ^ Hall, Goldstein & Ingram 2016.
- ^ Kellner 2020, p. 90.
- ^ Connolly 2017, p. 19.
- ^ a b Connolly 2017, p. 7.
- ^ Neuborne 2019, p. 32.
- ^ Rosenfeld 2019.
- ^ Neuborne 2019, p. 34.
- ^ a b c Neuborne 2019, p. 36.
- ^ Neuborne 2019, p. 39.
- ^ Neuborne 2019, p. 37.
- ^ Connolly 2017, p. 11.
- ^ Guilford 2016.
- ^ Sexton 2017, pp. 104–108.
- ^ Nessen 2016.
- ^ Newkirk 2016.
- ^ Kellner 2020, p. 93.
- ^ Le Bon 2002, pp. xiii, 8, 91–92.
- ^ Zaretsky 2016.
- ^ Reicher 2017, pp. 2–4.
- ^ Connolly 2017, p. 15.
- ^ Kessler & Kelly 2018.
- ^ McManus 2020, p. 178.
- ^ a b Kessler, Rizzo & Kelly 2020, pp. 16, 24, 46, 47, (ebook edition).
- ^ Pfiffner 2020, pp. 17–40.
- ^ Connolly 2017, pp. 18–19.
- ^ a b Plott 2020.
- ^ Rutenberg et al. 2021.
- ^ Rosenberg & Rutenberg 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Lemann 2020.
- ^ Zurcher 2020.
- ^ Enjeti 2021.
- ^ Brazile 2020.
- ^ a b Katzenstein 2019.
- ^ Wolf 2020.
- ^ Vallejo 2021.
- ^ Henninger 2021.
- ^ a b Stenner & Haidt 2018, p. 136.
- ^ a b Pettigrew 2017, p. 107.
- ^ Womick et al. 2018.
- ^ Dean & Altemeyer 2020, p. 140.
- ^ Dean & Altemeyer 2020, p. 154.
- ^ Dean & Altemeyer 2020, p. 188.
- ^ Dean & Altemeyer 2020, p. 218.
- ^ Dean & Altemeyer 2020, p. 258.
- ^ Dean & Altemeyer 2020, p. 227.
- ^ Pettigrew 2017, pp. 5–6.
- ^ Pettigrew 2017, p. 108.
- ^ Feldman 2020.
- ^ Pettigrew 2017, pp. 112–113.
- ^ McAdams 2020, p. 329.
- ^ Boehm 2016.
- ^ McAdams 2020, p. 318.
- ^ Fallows 2016.
- ^ a b Gabriel et al. 2018.
- ^ McAdams 2020, p. 298.
- ^ Stoller 2017, p. 58.
- ^ Blair 2000, p. 275, (epub edition).
- ^ Mansfield 2017, p. 77.
- ^ Kruse 2017.
- ^ Lifton 2019, pp. 131–132.
- ^ Parker 2020.
- ^ Lifton 2019, p. 11, epub edition).
- ^ Golec de Zavala et al. 2009, pp. 6, 43–44.
- ^ Hogg, van Knippenberg & Rast 2012, p. 258.
- ^ Federico & Golec de Zavala 2018, p. 1.
- ^ Fea 2018, p. 140.
- ^ Fea 2018, pp. 139–140.
- ^ Fea 2018, pp. 45, 67.
- ^ Gutterman 2020.
- ^ a b Whitebook 2017.
- ^ Cash 2017.
- ^ Lifton 2019, p. 129.
- ^ Lifton 2019, p. 128.
- ^ a b Bote 2020.
- ^ a b Bump 2020.
- ^ a b c Brooks 2020.
- ^ Imhoff & Lamberty 2018, p. 4.
- ^ McIntyre 2018, p. 94.
- ^ Kahan et al. 2017.
- ^ McIntyre 2018, p. 97.
- ^ Paravati et al. 2019.
- ^ Cillizza 2021.
- ^ Roper 2021.
- ^ Alter 2021.
- ^ Johnston 2020.
- ^ Imhoff & Lamberty 2018, p. 6.
- ^ van Prooijen 2018, p. 65.
- ^ Suessenbach & Moore 2020, abstract.
- ^ a b Denby 2015.
- ^ Bader 2016.
- ^ Trump 2019.
- ^ Trump & Schwartz 2011, p. 49, (epub edition).
- ^ Hart 2020, p. 4.
- ^ Andrews 2019, p. 14.
- ^ a b Ross 2016.
- ^ Gordon 2018, p. 70.
- ^ Gordon 2018, pp. 69, 70.
- ^ Horkheimer & Adorno 2002, pp. 169, 170.
- ^ a b Lebow 2019, p. 381.
- ^ McManus 2020, p. 68.
- ^ Gordon 2018, p. 72.
- ^ Gordon 2018, p. 69.
- ^ Kreiss 2018, pp. 98, 99.
- ^ Waisbord, Tucker & Lichtenheld 2018, pp. 29, 31.
- ^ Sobieraj & Berry 2011.
- ^ Berry & Sobieraj 2014.
- ^ Bond 2016.
- ^ Waisbord, Tucker & Lichtenheld 2018, p. 31.
- ^ Wehner 2017.
- ^ Confessore & Yourish 2016.
- ^ Waisbord, Tucker & Lichtenheld 2018, p. 30.
- ^ Carpini 2018, p. 17.
- ^ Donald J. Trump [@realDonaldTrump] (July 1, 2017). "My use of social media is not Presidential – it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on July 2, 2017 – via Twitter.
- ^ Ott 2017, p. 63.
- ^ Gabler 2016.
- ^ O'Callaghan 2020, p. 115.
- ^ Sobieraj & Berry 2011, p. 20.
- ^ Sobieraj & Berry 2011, p. 22.
- ^ a b c O'Callaghan 2020, p. 116.
- ^ Sunstein 2007, p. 60.
- ^ Massachs et al. 2020, p. 2.
- ^ Bleiberg & West 2015.
- ^ Power 2018, p. 77.
- ^ Solon 2016.
- ^ Gottfried & Shearer 2016.
- ^ Ott 2017, p. 65.
- ^ a b Robison 2020, p. 180.
- ^ Sunstein 2007, pp. 46–96.
- ^ Robison 2020, p. 182.
- ^ a b Glasser 2018.
- ^ a b Morris 2019, p. 20.
- ^ Lyall 2021.
- ^ Greenberg 2016.
- ^ Morris 2019, p. 21.
- ^ MacWilliams 2020.
- ^ Peters 2020.
- ^ Haltiwanger, John (September 25, 2020). "Historians and election experts warn Trump is behaving like Mussolini and despots that the US usually condemns". Business Insider. Archived from the original on October 18, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- ^ Matthews 2021.
- ^ Boucheron 2020.
- ^ Robertson 2020.
- ^ Hasan 2020.
- ^ Urbinati 2020.
- ^ Shenk 2016.
- ^ Illing 2018.
- ^ Finn 2017.
- ^ Paxton 2021.
- ^ Devore 2019.
- ^ Finchelstein 2017, pp. 11–13.
- ^ Browning 2018.
- ^ Seeßlen 2017.
- ^ Temelkuran 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g McFadden & Grynbaum 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Peters 2021.
- ^ Serhan 2021.
- ^ Lowndes 2021.
- ^ Jindal & Castellanos 2021.
- ^ Harwood 2017.
- ^ Partington 2018.
- ^ Thompson 2017.
- ^ O'Connor 2020.
- ^ Swan, Savage & Haberman 2023.
- ^ Baker 2024.
- ^ Rudolf 2017.
- ^ Assheuer 2018.
- ^ Smith & Townsend 2018.
- ^ Tharoor 2018.
- ^ Diamond 2016.
- ^ Kuhn 2018.
- ^ Zengerle 2019.
- ^ Wintour 2020.
- ^ a b Delacourt 2020.
- ^ Donolo 2021.
- ^ a b Fawcett 2021.
- ^ Donolo 2020.
- ^ Global 2021.
- ^ Fournier 2021.
- ^ a b c d The Current 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f Graves & Smith 2020.
- ^ a b c Fournier 2020.
- ^ Woods 2020.
- ^ CBC News, September 8, 2020.
- ^ CBC News, August 24, 2020.
- ^ National Post, June 5, 2018.
- ^ Samphir 2019.
- ^ Fisher 2019.
- ^ Helsinki Times, April 13, 2019.
- ^ Schneider 2017.
- ^ Pardo, Pablo (April 27, 2019). "Make Spain Great Again". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on November 14, 2019. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
- ^ Kakissis 2019.
- ^ Haltiwanger 2018.
- ^ Survival International 2020.
- ^ Phillips & Phillips 2019.
- ^ Weisbrot 2017.
- ^ Brant 2018.
- ^ Bailey 2017.
- ^ Ilyushina 2020.
- ^ a b Akinwotu 2020.
- ^ Nwaubani 2020.
- ^ a b Oduah 2016.
- ^ Nwachukwu 2018.
- ^ "Biafran pro-Trump rally turns violent in Nigeria". BBC News. January 20, 2017. Archived from the original on August 24, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Bankole 2020.
- ^ Adebayo 2020.
- ^ Campbell 2020.
- ^ a b c Tabatabai 2020.
- ^ "The App Powering the Uprising in Iran, Where Some Channels Pushed for Violence", The Daily Beast, January 11, 2018, archived from the original on February 1, 2019, retrieved February 5, 2022
- ^ Osaki, Tomohiro (March 8, 2019). "Ex-adviser Steve Bannon says Abe was 'Trump before Trump,' urges him to play hardball with China". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on August 29, 2020. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
- ^ Yamaguchi, Mari; Tanaka, Chisato; Klug, Foster (July 9, 2022). "Japan's ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated during a speech". Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023.
Even though he was out of office, Abe was still highly influential in the governing Liberal Democratic Party and headed its largest faction, Seiwakai, but his ultra-nationalist views made him a divisive figure to many.
- ^ "Yoon visits Japan, seeking to restore ties amid N Korea threat". Al Jazeera. March 16, 2023. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023.
But many in South Korea did not consider Japan's remorse as sufficiently sincere, especially as the ultranationalist former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated last year, and his allies sought to whitewash Japan's colonial abuses, even suggesting there was no evidence to indicate Japanese authorities coerced Korean women into sexual slavery.
- ^ "Japan's rising right-wing nationalism". Vox. May 26, 2017. Archived from the original on February 6, 2023 – via YouTube.
- Yahoo News (in Japanese), archived from the originalon December 14, 2020, retrieved February 16, 2021
- ^ Moon, Rhys (January 15, 2023). "Feminism is the New F-Word – Populism & Patriarchy Among Young South Korean Men: K-Trumpism is part of the global rise of right-wing populism, experts say". Harvard Political Review. Archived from the original on February 3, 2023. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
The case of South Korea parallels the lasting effects of Trumpism on conservative nativism in the United States, which attributes economic troubles to asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants.
- ^ Coronel 2020.
Bibliography
Books
- Andrews, David L. (2019). "Making Sport Great Again". Making Sport Great Again: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture (e-book ed.). New York: S2CID 159089360.
- ISBN 978-1509536092.
...we could speak of these new figures in terms of a kind of "democratic fascism", a paradoxical but effective designation. After all, the Berlusconis, the Sarkozys, the Le Pens, the Trumps, are operating inside the democratic apparatus, with its elections, its oppositions, its scandals, etc. But, within this apparatus, they are playing a different score, another music. This is certainly the case with Trump, who is racist, a male chauvinist, violent—all of which are fascist tendencies—but who, in addition, displays a contempt for logic and rationality and a muffled hatred of intellectuals. The music proper to this type of democratic fascism is a discourse that does not worry in the least bit about coherence, a discourse of impulse, comfortable with a few nighttime tweets, and that imposes a sort of dislocation of language, positively flaunting its ability to say everything and its opposite. For these new political figures, the aim of language is no longer to explain anything or to defend a point of view in an articulate manner. Its aim is to produce affects, which are used to create a fleetingly powerful unity, largely artificial but capable of being exploited in the moment.
- Berry, Jeffrey M.; Sobieraj, Sarah (2014). The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility (e-book ed.). New York: ISBN 978-0199928972. Archivedfrom the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ISBN 0684808498.
- Boggs, Carl (2018). Fascism Old and New (e-book ed.). New York: ISBN 978-1351049696.
At this juncture [November 2017] it is worth noting that the 2016 ascendancy of Donald Trump to the White House does not occur to the author as a specifically fascist moment in U.S. history, contrary to what is commonly heard in liberal and progressive circles. To be sure, Trump does possess strong elements of a leadership cult, replete with narcissism and grandiose visions ('making American great again') ... I have chosen to view Trump as representing an interregnum between existing power arrangements—that is, a militarized state-capitalism—and potential American fascism.
- ISBN 0310281245.
- ISBN 978-1517905125.
- ISBN 978-1612199061.
- de la Torre, Carlos; Barr, Robert R.; Arato, Andrew; Cohen, Jean L.; Ruzza, Carlo (2019). Routledge Handbook of Global Populism. Routledge International Handbooks. London & New York: ISBN 978-1315226446.
- ISBN 978-0062796745.
- ISBN 978-1250293633.
- Fea, John (2018). Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. Grand Rapids, Michigan: ISBN 978-1467450461.
- ISBN 978-1000768275. Archivedfrom the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
- JSTOR j.ctt21215dw.8. Archivedfrom the original on October 10, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
- Hart, Roderick P. (2020). "Trump's Arrival". Trump and Us (What He Says and Why People Listen). Cambridge, England: S2CID 234899569.
- ISBN 978-1620972267.
- ISBN 978-0804788090.
- Jaeger, C. Stephen (1985). The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. ASIN B008UYP8H8.
- ISBN 978-1936034581.
- JSTOR j.ctv9hvtcf.8.
- ISBN 978-9811080135.
- ISBN 978-1982151089.
- ISBN 978-1568589626.
- ISBN 978-0520966086.
- Laclau, Ernesto (2005). On Populist Reason. New York: ISBN 978-1788731331.
- ISBN 978-0486419565.
- ePubedition.)
- ISBN 978-0870151828. Archivedfrom the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
- ISBN 978-1493412259. Archivedfrom the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ISBN 978-0262535045.
- ISBN 978-0197507469.
- McManus, Matthew (2020). "The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism". In Hardwick, David; Marsh, Leslie (eds.). The Rise Of Post-Modern Conservatism Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, And Reactionary Politics (e-book ed.). New York: S2CID 241523759.
- Money-Kyrle, Roger (2015) [1941]. "The Psychology of Propaganda". In Meltzer, Donald; O'Shaughnessy, Edna (eds.). The Collected Papers of Roger Money-Kyrle. Clunie Press..
Money – Kyle describes not a rhetorical pattern of problem–conflict–resolution, but a progression of psychoanalytic states of mind in the three steps: 1) melancholia, 2) paranoia and 3) megalomania
- ISBN 978-1594039584. Archivedfrom the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 14, 2020.
- ISBN 978-1620973585.
- Pfiffner, James (2020). "The Lies of Donald Trump: A Taxonomy". Presidential Leadership and the Trump Presidency (PDF). New York: (PDF) from the original on December 27, 2020. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0143036531.
- Pybus, Jennifer (2015). "Accumulating affect: social networks and their archives of feeling". In Hillis, Ken; ISBN 978-0262028646.
- Resano, Dolores (2017). American Literature in the Era of Trumpism: Alternative Realities. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-73857-0.
- ISBN 978-1619029569. Archivedfrom the original on March 14, 2024. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
- ISBN 978-0190923020.
- ISBN 978-0691133560.
- Tarizzo, Davide (2021). Political grammars : the unconscious foundations of modern democracy. Square One: First Order Questions in the Humanities. Stanford, California: ISBN 978-1503615328.
- ISBN 978-0008340612.
- ISBN 978-1788730464.: to govern without people, in other words, without any dividing of the people; to govern without politics.
'Populism' is a category used as a self-defence mechanism by political elites who stand ever further from the people. According to Jacques Rancière: "Populism is the convenient name under which is dissimulated the exacerbated contradiction between popular legitimacy and expert legitimacy, that is, the difficulty the government of science has in adapting itself to manifestations of democracy and even to the mixed form of representative system. This name at once masks and reveals the intense wish of the oligarch
- Trump, Donald J.; ISBN 978-0307575333.
- van Prooijen, Jan-Willem (2018). The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories. The Psychology of Everything. New York: ISBN 978-1315525419.
- ISBN 978-1471181306.
Articles
- Adebayo, Bukola (January 9, 2020). "A majority of Nigerians and Kenyans have confidence in President Trump, according to Pew research". CNN. Archived from the original on August 29, 2022. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
- Akinwotu, Emmanuel (October 31, 2020). "'He just says it as it is': why many Nigerians support Donald Trump". The Guardian. Archived from the original on July 21, 2022. Retrieved October 1, 2022.
- Alter, Ethan (January 14, 2021). "'The Punisher' star Jon Bernthal lashes out at 'misguided and lost' Capitol rioters for appropriating Marvel hero's famous skull symbol". Yahoo Entertainment. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- Appel, Edward C. (March 12, 2018). "Burlesque, Tragedy, and a (Potentially) 'Yuuuge' 'Breaking of a Frame': Donald Trump's Rhetoric as 'Early Warning'?". Communication Quarterly. 66 (2): 157–175. S2CID 149031634.
- Andersen, Travis (January 6, 2021). "Before mob stormed US Capitol, Trump told them to 'fight like hell'". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- Assheuer, Thomas (May 16, 2018). "Donald Trump: Das Recht bin ich". Die Zeit (in German). Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- Bader, Michael (December 25, 2016). "The Decline of Empathy and the Appeal of Right-Wing Politics – Child psychology can teach us about the current GOP". Psychology Today. Archived from the original on March 17, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
- Bailey, Sarah Pulliam (November 28, 2017). "Acts of Faith. A Trump-like politician in Brazil could snag the support of a powerful religious group: evangelicals". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
- Baker, Joseph O.; Perry, Samuel L.; Whitehead, Andrew L. (May 14, 2020). "Keep America Christian (and White): Christian Nationalism, Fear of Ethnoracial Outsiders, and Intention to Vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election". Sociology of Religion. 81 (3): 272–293. hdl:1805/26339.
In the penultimate year before Trump's reelection campaign, the strongest predictors of supporting Trump, in order of magnitude, were political party, xenophobia, identifying as African American (negative), political ideology, Christian nationalism, and Islamophobia.
- Baker, Peter (February 11, 2024). "Favoring Foes Over Friends, Trump Threatens to Upend International Order". The New York Times. from the original on February 20, 2024. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
- Bankole, Idowu (February 3, 2020). "Trump's rally: IPOB commends US over Kanu's VIP invitation". Vanguard News. Archived from the original on July 22, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
- Barrett, David; Zapotosky, Matt (January 13, 2021). "FBI report warned of 'war' at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming violence". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 15, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- Bebout, Lee (January 7, 2021). "Trump tapped into white victimhood – leaving fertile ground for white supremacists". The Conversation. Archived from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
Trumpism tapped into a long-standing sense of aggrievement that often—but not exclusively—manifests as white victimhood.
- Beer, Tommy (January 16, 2021). "Fox News Viewership Plummets: First Time Behind CNN And MSNBC In Two Decades". Forbes. Archived from the original on April 9, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- Bennhold, Katrin (September 7, 2020). "Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany's Far Right". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 20, 2020. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
- Benjamin, Rich (September 28, 2020). "Democrats Need to Wake Up: The Trump Movement Is Shot Through With Fascism". The Intercept. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- Lempinen, Edward (December 7, 2020). "Despite drift toward authoritarianism, Trump voters stay loyal. Why?". University of California, Berkeley News. Archived from the original on January 5, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- Bidgood, Jess; Ulloa, Jazmine (October 1, 2020). "A debate and a rally show Trump's closing strategy: Tapping into the white grievance of his political bubble". The Boston Globe. Duluth, Minneapolis. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
- Blair, Leonardo (December 15, 2020). "Beth Moore draws flak and praise after warning Christians against 'dangerous' Trumpism". Christian Post. Archived from the original on December 15, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Blake, Aaron (January 7, 2021). "'Let's have trial by combat': How Trump and allies egged on the violent scenes Wednesday". from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- Bleiberg, Joshua; West, Darrell M. (May 13, 2015). "Political Polarization on Facebook". The Brookings Institution. Archivedfrom the original on October 10, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- Blyth, Mark (November 15, 2016). "Global Trumpism: Why Trump's Victory was 30 Years in the Making and Why It Won't Stop Here". Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- Bond, Paul (February 29, 2016). "Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: "It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS"". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
- Boehm, Christopher (February 13, 2016). "Political Animals". New Scientist. 229 (3060): 26–27. .
- Boucheron, Patrick (February 8, 2020). "'Real power is fear': what Machiavelli tells us about Trump in 2020". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- Boler, Megan; Davis, Elizabeth (2021). "Affect, Media, Movement – Interview with Susanna Paasonen and Zizi Papacharissi". In Boler, Megan; Davis, Elizabeth (eds.). Affective Politics of Digital Media (e-book ed.). New York: ISBN 978-1003052272.
- Bote, Joshua (October 22, 2020). "Half of Trump supporters believe in QAnon conspiracy theory's baseless claims, poll finds". USA Today. Archived from the original on January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- Brant, Danielle (October 4, 2018). "Bolsonaro Uses Same Fascist Tactics As Trump, Says Yale Professor". Folha de São Paulo. São Paulo. Archivedfrom the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- Brazile, Donna (August 28, 2020). "Convention shows Republican Party has died and been replaced by Trump Party". Fox News (Opinion). Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- Brewster, Jack (November 22, 2020). "Republicans Ask, Whether Or Not Trump Runs In 2024, What Will Come Of Trumpism?". Forbes. Archived from the original on January 10, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- Husser, Jason (April 6, 2020). "Why Trump is reliant on white evangelicals". The Brookings Institution. Archivedfrom the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- Brooks, David (November 26, 2020). "The rotting of the Republican mind". The New York Times (Opinion). Archived from the original on December 5, 2020. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- The New York Review. 65 (16). Archivedfrom the original on June 9, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
Trump is not Hitler and Trumpism is not Nazism, but regardless of how the Trump presidency concludes, this is a story unlikely to have a happy ending.
- Bump, Philip (October 20, 2020). "Even if they haven't heard of QAnon, most Trump voters believe its wild allegations". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 13, 2020. Retrieved December 13, 2020.
- Butler, Judith; Salmon, Christian (December 29, 2016). "Trump, fascism, and the construction of "the people": An interview with Judith Butler". VersoBooks. Translated by Broder, David. Verso. Archived from the original on May 14, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- The Verso published English translation is of the article: Butler, Judith; Salmon, Christian (December 18, 2016). "Judith Butler: pourquoi "Trump est un phénomène fasciste"". Mediapart (in French). Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- Campbell, John (February 11, 2020). "Despite Travel Ban, Trump Remains Popular in Nigeria". Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on August 29, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
- Carpini, Michael X. Delli (2018). "Alternative Facts: Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New U.S. Media Regime". In Boczkowski, Pablo; Papacharissi, Zizi (eds.). Trump and the Media (e-book ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262037969. Archivedfrom the original on January 15, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- Cash, John (2017). Fitzroy, Vic (ed.). "Trumped in the Looking-glass" (pdf). Arena Magazine. No. 151. Archivedfrom the original on May 24, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- "Andrew Scheer praises Erin O'Toole as next leader of Conservative Party". CBC. August 24, 2020. Archived from the original on January 18, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Erin O'Toole (newly-elected leader of the CPC) (September 8, 2020). O'Toole on his 'Canada First' policy. Power & Politics. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Rahn, Will; Patterson, Dan (September 29, 2020). "What is the QAnon conspiracy theory?". CBS News. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020. Retrieved October 2, 2020.
- Cegielski, Stephanie (March 29, 2016). "An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector". xoJane. Archived from the original on August 25, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- Choma, Becky L.; Hanoch, Yaniv (February 2017). "Cognitive ability and authoritarianism: Understanding support for Trump and Clinton". Personality and Individual Differences. 106 (1): 287–291. hdl:10026.1/8451.
- Chomsky, Noam; Polychroniou, Chronis J. (November 26, 2020). "Noam Chomsky: Trump Has Revealed the Extreme Fragility of American Democracy". Global Policy. Wiley-Blackwell. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
- Cillizza, Chris (February 4, 2021). "Three-quarters of Republicans believe a lie about the 2020 election". CNN. Archived from the original on February 7, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- Clavey, Charles H. (October 20, 2020). "Donald Trump, Our Prophet of Deceit". Boston Review. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
- Clemens, Colleen (December 11, 2017). "What We Mean When We Say 'Toxic Masculinity.'". Learning for Justice. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- Cockburn, Patrick (November 4, 2020). "Trump's bid to stop the count risks turning America into an 'illiberal democracy' like Turkey". The Independent (U.K.). Archived from the original on June 25, 2021. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
- Confessore, Nicholas; Yourish, Karen (March 25, 2016). "$2 Billion Worth of Free Media for Donald Trump". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
- Colvin, Geoff (August 25, 2020). "The Republican Party turns its platform into a person: Donald Trump". Fortune. Archived from the original on September 14, 2021. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
- Conroy, J Oliver (February 7, 2017). "'Angry white men': the sociologist who studied Trump's base before Trump". The Guardian. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
- Continetti, Matthew (December 22, 2020). "Is Trump Really All That Holds the G.O.P. Together?". The New York Times (Opinion). Archived from the original on January 1, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
- Cornelis, Ilse; Van Hiel, Alain (2015). "Extreme right-wing voting in Western Europe: The role of social-cultural and antiegalitarian attitudes". Political Psychology. 35 (6): 749–760. from the original on January 14, 2024. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
- Coronel, Sheila S. (November 9, 2020). "A warning from the Philippines on how a demagogue can haunt politics for decades". The Washington Post (Opinion). Archivedfrom the original on June 29, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- Cox, Ana Marie (October 12, 2016). "Russell Moore Can't Support Either Candidate". The New York Times. New York. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- Cui, Xi (2018). "Emotional Contagion or Symbolic Cognition? A Social Identity Perspective on Media Events". Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 62 (1): 91–108. S2CID 149162170.
- da Silva, Chantal (November 6, 2020). "'Reckless' and 'stupid': Trump Jr calls for 'total war' over election results". The Independent. Archived from the original on January 14, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
- Danner, Mark (May 26, 2016). "The Magic of Donald Trump" (PDF). The New York Review of Books. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 20, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- Delacourt, Susan (November 8, 2020). "Donald Trump lost, but Trumpism is still thriving. Could it take hold in Canada, too?". Toronto Star (Opinion). Archived from the original on January 14, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Denby, David (December 15, 2015). "The Plot Against America: Donald Trump's Rhetoric". New Yorker. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
- Devore, Molly (April 3, 2019). "'Trumpism' is not enough of a mass movement to be fascism, visiting professor says". The Badger Herald. Archived from the original on August 14, 2021. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- Dreher, Rod (December 17, 2020). "Church Of Trumpianity". The American Conservative. Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
- Diamond, Jeremy (July 29, 2016). "Timeline: Donald Trump's praise for Vladimir Putin". CNN. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
- Donolo, Peter (August 21, 2020). "Trumpism won't happen in Canada – but not because of our politics". The Globe and Mail (Opinion). Archived from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Donolo, Peter (January 9, 2021). "What will become of Trump's Canadian fan base?". Toronto Star (Opinion). Toronto. Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Drutman, Lee (June 8, 2021). "The Republican party is now an explicitly illiberal party". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 30, 2021. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
- Enjeti, Saagar (March 3, 2021). "Trump defines Trumpism". Rising. The Hill. Archived from the original on March 9, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
- Evans, Richard J. (January 13, 2021). "Why Trump isn't a fascist – The storming of the Capitol on 6 January was not a coup. But American democracy is still in danger". New Statesman. Archived from the original on March 12, 2021. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
- Fallows, James (October 10, 2016). "Trump Time Capsule #137: Primate Dominance Moves at the Debate". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on February 19, 2021. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
- Fawcett, Max (January 12, 2021). "Rigged Canadian election? Why Canada's Conservatives can't seem to quit Donald Trump". National Observer (Opinion). Archivedfrom the original on January 12, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Federico, Christopher M.; Golec de Zavala, Agnieszka (March 6, 2018). "Collective Narcissism and the 2016 US Presidential Vote" (PDF). Public Opinion Quarterly. 82 (1). Oxford University Press: 110–121. from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
- .
- ISBN 978-0520968042. Archivedfrom the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- Finn, Ed (May 13, 2017). "Is Trump a fascist?". The Independent. Newfoundland. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- Fisher, Marc (May 16, 2019). "After a two-decade friendship and waves of lavish praise, Trump pardons newspaper magnate Conrad Black". from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Foster, John Bellamy (June 1, 2017). "This Is Not Populism". Monthly Review (Editorial). Archived from the original on July 1, 2017. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
Commenting on the hegemonic framing of the radical right as populist, and the analytical problems that it presents, Andrea Mammone observes in his Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy that "the terms populism and national populism" were deliberately introduced in recent decades by liberal European commentators in order to "replace fascism/neofascism as the used terminology." This move was designed to "provide a sort of political and democratic legitimization of right-wing extremism."
- Fournier, Philippe J. (October 1, 2020). "How much do Canadians dislike Donald Trump? A lot". Maclean's. Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Fournier, Philippe J. (January 10, 2021). "Canada is not immune to Trumpism". Maclean's. Archived from the original on January 12, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Gabler, Neal (April 29, 2016). "Donald Trump, the Emperor of Social Media". Moyers On Democracy. Schumann Media Center. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- Gabriel, Shira; Paravati, Elaine; Green, Melanie C.; Flomsbee, Jason (2018). "From Apprentice to president: The role of parasocial connection in the election of Donald Trump". Social Psychological and Personality Science. 9 (3): 299–307. from the original on January 15, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- Galli, Mark (December 19, 2019). "Trump Should Be Removed from Office". Christianity Today (Editorial). Archived from the original on December 23, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
- Garcia-Navarro, Lulu (January 21, 2024). "Inside the Heritage Foundation's Plans for 'Institutionalizing Trumpism'". ISSN 0028-7822. Archived from the originalon February 13, 2024. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
- Giroux, Henry A. (December 14, 2017). "Fascism's return and Trump's war on youth". The Conversation. Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- S2CID 234851204.
As the social state came under severe attack, the punishing state grew with its ongoing militarization of civil society and its increasing criminalization of social problems. War, dehumanization, divisiveness, hate, and the language of racial cleansing and sorting became central governing principles and set the stage for the rebirth of an updated fascist politics. Trumpism reached into every niche and crack of civil and political society and in doing so cross-pollinated politics, culture, and everyday life with a range of right-wing policies, authoritarian impulses, and the emerging presence of right-wing movements.
- Glasser, Susan (January 22, 2018). "The Man Who Put Andrew Jackson in Trump's Oval Office". Politico. Archived from the original on November 22, 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- "Trumpism in Canada". Global News. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Goldberg, Michelle (December 15, 2020). "Just how dangerous was Trump?" (Opinion). The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 16, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
- Golec de Zavala, Agnieszka; Cichocka, Aleksandra; Eidelson, Roy; Jayawickreme, Nuwan (2009). "Collective Narcissism and Its Social Consequences" (PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 97 (6): 1074–1096. PMID 19968420. Archived from the original(PDF) on March 24, 2018. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0226597300.
- An earlier version appeared in peer-reviewed journal Boundary 2: Gordon, Peter E. (June 15, 2016). "Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory". Boundary 2. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
- from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved April 19, 2021 – via Springer Link.
- Gottfried, Jeffrey; Shearer, Elisa (May 26, 2016). "News use across social media platforms 2016". Pew Research Center. Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- Graves, Frank; Smith, Jeff (June 30, 2020). "Northern Populism: Causes and Consequences of the New Ordered Outlook". School of Public Policy. 13. from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Green, Emma (January 8, 2021). "A Christian Insurrection". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Greenberg, David (December 11, 2016). "An Intellectual History of Trumpism". Politico. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- Gryboski, Michael (November 8, 2012). "Texas Megachurch Pastor Says Obama Will 'Pave Way' for Antichrist". The Christian Post. Archived from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
- Guilford, Gwynn (April 1, 2016). "Inside the Trump machine: The bizarre psychology of America's newest political movement". Quartz. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
- Gutterman, David (2020). "Book Review: Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump". eJournal of Public Affairs. 9 (2). S2CID 199267291.
- Haberman, Maggie (January 6, 2021). "Trump Told Crowd 'You Will Never Take Back Our Country With Weakness'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 9, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- Haltiwanger, John (October 9, 2018). "The 'Brazilian Donald Trump,' Jair Bolsonaro, is visiting the White House. He was elected president despite saying he couldn't love a gay son and that a colleague was too 'ugly' to be raped". Business Insider. Archived from the original on December 10, 2020. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- S2CID 55012627. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
- Hamilton, Lawrence C. (January 10, 2024). Ettinger, Aaron (ed.). "Trumpism, climate and COVID: Social bases of the new science rejection". PLOS ONE. 19 (1): e0293059. PMID 38198461.
Trumpism itself is predicted by age, race, evangelical religion, ideology, and receptivity to seemingly non-political conspiracy beliefs. Considering direct as well as indirect effects (through Trumpism), climate change and vaccine rejection are similarly predicted by white and evangelical identity, conspiracism, and by education×ideology and friends×party interactions.
- Harwood, John (January 20, 2017). "Why Trumpism May Not Endure". The New York Times (Opinion). Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- Hasan, Mehdi (June 4, 2020). "Is This Trump's Reichstag Fire Moment?". The Intercept. Archived from the original on February 2, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- Hedges, Chris (January 3, 2020). "Onward, Christian fascists". Salon.com. Archived from the original on December 28, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- "Trumpism comes to Finland, exporting happiness, and Kardashians in Lapland – Finland in the World Press". Helsinki Times. April 13, 2019. Archived from the original on January 24, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Henderson, Bruce (August 24, 2017). "Evangelical Leader Stays on Trump Advisory Council Despite Charlottesville Response". Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Henninger, Daniel (March 3, 2021). "Trumpism According to Trump". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on March 14, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
- Hidalgo-Tenorio, Encarnación; Benítez-Castro, Miguel-Ángel (2021). "Trump's populist discourse and affective politics, or on how to move 'the People' through emotion". Globalisation, Societies and Education. 20 (2): 86–109. S2CID 234260705.
- Hoad, Neville (November 20, 2020). "Big man sovereignty and sexual politics in pandemic time". Safundi the Journal of SouthAfrican and American Studies. 21 (4): 433–455. S2CID 228896339.
- S2CID 143555737.
- Hilditch, Cameron (December 18, 2020). "Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March". National Review. Archived from the original on December 20, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
- ISBN 978-0367366247. Archivedfrom the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
- Horton, Michael (December 16, 2020). "The Cult of Christian Trumpism". The Gospel Coalition. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Hovland, Ben (September 13, 2020). "Capitol rally targets Minnesota's COVID-19 state of emergency". Albert Lea Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- Hymes, Clare; McDonald, Cassidy; Watson, Elanor (April 16, 2021). "What we know about the "unprecedented" U.S. Capitol riot arrests". CBS News. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- Ibish, Hussain (April 12, 2020). "Is Donald Trump's US sliding towards illiberal democracy?". The National (Abu Dhabi) (Opinion). Archived from the original on June 29, 2021. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
- Illing, Sean (November 16, 2018). "What Machiavelli can teach us about Trump and the decline of liberal democracy". Vox. Archived from the original on February 3, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- Ilyushina, Mary (December 15, 2020). "Putin, Bolsonaro and AMLO finally congratulate Biden on US election victory". CNN. Archived from the original on January 24, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- Imhoff, Roland; Lamberty, Pia (2018). "How paranoid are conspiracy believers? Toward a more fine-grained understanding of the connect and disconnect between paranoia and belief in conspiracy theories". European Journal of Social Psychology. 48 (7): 909–926. from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- Isaac, Jeffrey (November 2017). "Making America Great Again?". Perspectives on Politics. 15 (3). Cambridge University Press: 625–631. .
- Jacobs, Thomas (October 21, 2016). "Masculinity in the Time of Trump". Pacific Standard. Grist Magazine, Inc. Archived from the original on February 14, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- Jacquemet, Marco (2020). "45 as a Bullshit Artist: Straining for Charisma". In McIntosh, Janet; from the original on April 20, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- Jeffress, Robert; Fea, John (May 26, 2016). "The Evangelical Debate Over Trump" (audio). Interfaith Voices. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Jeffress, Robert; Wehner, Peter (July 12, 2016). "Dr. Robert Jeffress and Peter Wehner Join Mike for Important Debate over Evangelical Christian Support of Trump" (audio). The Mike Gallagher Show. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Jindal, Bobby; Castellanos, Alex (January 3, 2021). "Separating Trump from Trumpism is key to the GOP's future". Newsweek (Opinion). Archived from the original on April 16, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- Johnson, Jessica (2018). "The Self-Radicalization of White Men". Communication, Culture & Critique. 11 (1). from the original on January 15, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- Johnston, Rich (July 3, 2020). "Why Did Sean Hannity Lose His Punisher Skull Pin On Fox News?". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- Jones, Karen (2019). "Trust, distrust, and affective looping". Philosophical Studies. 176 (4). Springer Nature: 955–968. S2CID 171852867.
- Partial reprint: Jones, Karen (November 14, 2019). "Understanding the emotions is key to breaking the cycle of distrust". ABC's Religion and Ethics. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
- Jones, Karen (2013). "Trusting Interpretations". In Mäkelä, Pekka; Townley, Cynthia (eds.). Trust: Analytic and Applied Perspectives. Value Inquiry Book Series. Vol. 263. Rodopi. ISBN 978-9401209410.
- Jutel, Olivier (2019). "Donald Trump, American Populism and Affective Media". In de la Torre, Carlos; Barr, Robert R.; Arato, Andrew; Cohen, Jean L.; Ruzza, Carlo (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Global Populism. Routledge International Handbooks. London & New York: ISBN 978-1315226446.
- Kagan, Robert (May 16, 2016). "This is how fascism comes to America". The Washington Post (Opinion). Archived from the original on February 13, 2021. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
- S2CID 231735365.
- Kakissis, Joanna (May 13, 2019). "In Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orban Has A Rare Ally In The Oval Office". NPR. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Katzenstein, Peter J. (March 20, 2019). "Trumpism is Us". WZB Mitteilungen. Berlin: Social Science Research Center. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- Kaul, Nitasha (June 17, 2021). "The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies" (PDF). International Studies Review. 23 (4): 1619–1645. .
- Kessler, Glenn; Kelly, Meg (January 10, 2018). "President Trump has made more than 2,000 false or misleading claims over 355 days". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- S2CID 149487672.
- Kreiss, Daniel (2018). "The Media Are about Identity, Not Information". In Boczkowski, Pablo J.; Papacharissi, Zizi (eds.). Trump and the Media. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262037969.
- Kruse, Michael (October 13, 2017). "The Power of Trump's Positive Thinking". Politico. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- Kuhn, Johannes (September 2, 2017). "Who moved America to the right". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- Kuhn, Johannes (July 17, 2018). "Trump und Putin: Republikaner üben leichte Kritik". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- Lange, Jason (January 17, 2024). "Trump's rise sparks isolationist worries abroad, but voters unfazed". Reuters. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- Swan, Jonathan; Savage, Charlie; Haberman, Maggie (December 9, 2023). "Fears of a NATO Withdrawal Rise as Trump Seeks a Return to Power". New York Times. Archived from the original on December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
- Lebow, David (May 13, 2019). "Trumpism and the Dialectic of Neoliberal Reason". Perspectives on Politics. 17 (2). Cambridge University Press: 380–398. S2CID 182013544.
- Lemann, Nicholas (November 2, 2020). "The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
- Leone, Luigi; Desimoni, Marta; Chirumbolo, Antonio (September 26, 2012). "Interest and expertise moderate the relationship between right-wing attitudes, ideological self-placement and voting". European Journal of Personality. 28 (1): 2–13. S2CID 143037865.
- Lewis, Matt (December 12, 2020). "Bad News for Evangelicals – God Doesn't Need Donald Trump in the White House". The Daily Beast (Opinion). Archived from the original on March 9, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021 – via www.msn.com.
- Liu, William Ming (April 14, 2016). "How Trump's 'Toxic Masculinity' Is Bad for Other Men". Motto (Time). New York. Archived from the original on January 21, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
- Lowndes, Joseph (2019). "Populism and race in the United States from George Wallace to Donald Trump". In de la Torre, Carlos (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Global Populism. London & New York: ISBN 978-1315226446.
Trump unabashedly employed the language of white supremacy and misogyny, rage and even violence at Trump rallies was like nothing seen in decades.
- Lowndes, Joseph (November 8, 2021). "Far-right extremism dominates the GOP. It didn't start — and won't end — with Trump". Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 23, 2021. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
- Lubbers, Marcel; Scheepers, Peer (December 7, 2010). "French Front National voting: A micro and macro perspective" (PDF). Ethnic and Racial Studies. 25 (1): 120–149. (PDF) from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- Lyall, Sarah (January 23, 2021). "The Trump Presidency Is Now History. So How Will It Rank?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- MacWilliams, Matthew (January 17, 2016). "The one weird trait that predicts whether you're a Trump supporter". Politico. Archived from the original on January 29, 2021. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
- MacWilliams, Matthew C. (September 23, 2020). "Trump Is an Authoritarian. So Are Millions of Americans". Politico. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- Marietta, Morgan; Farley, Tyler; Cote, Tyler; Murphy, Paul (2017). "The Rhetorical Psychology of Trumpism". The Forum. 15 (2). De Gruyter: 313–312. S2CID 148986197.
- Mason, Liliana; Wronski, Julie; Kane, John V. (2021). "Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support". American Political Science Review. 115 (4). Cambridge University Press: 1508–1516. S2CID 237860170.
Trump's support is thus uniquely tied to animus toward minority groups. Our findings provide insights into the social divisions underlying American politics and the role of elite rhetoric in translating animus into political support.
- Massachs, Joan; Monti, Corrado; Morales, Gianmarco De Francisci; Bonchi, Francesco (2020). "Roots of Trumpism: Homophily and Social Feedback in Donald Trump Support on Reddit". 12th ACM Conference on Web Science. 12th ACM Conference on Web Science. pp. 49–58. S2CID 218502169.
- Matthews, Dylan (January 14, 2021). "The F Word". Vox. Archived from the original on January 24, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- Matthews, Dylan (October 23, 2020). "Is Trump a fascist? 8 experts weigh in". Vox. Archived from the original on January 4, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
- McFadden, Robert D.; Grynbaum, Michael M. (February 18, 2021). "Rush Limbaugh Dies at 70; Turned Talk Radio Into a Right-Wing Attack Machine". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 9, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- McCarthy, Tom; Ho, Vivian; Greve, Joan E. (January 7, 2021). "Schumer calls pro-Trump mob 'domestic terrorists' as Senate resumes election certification – live". The Guardian. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
- McGaughey, Ewan (2018). "Fascism-Lite in America (or the Social Ideal of Donald Trump)". British Journal of American Legal Studies. 7 (2): 291–315. SSRN 2773217.
- Moore, Johnnie (August 24, 2017). "Evangelical Trump Adviser: Why I Won't Bail on the White House". Religion News Service. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Morris, Edwin Kent (2019). "Inversion, Paradox, and Liberal Disintegration: Towards a Conceptual Framework of Trumpism". New Political Science. 41 (1): 17–35. S2CID 149978398.
Trumpian fascism is a different kind of fascism. It is better understood as an inverted, American kind of fascism, distinct from European fascism, but not entirely dissimilar from it. Inverted American-style fascism differs from European fascist in one crucial way: the role of corporate power in the politics of the state.
- Mullen, Lincoln (June 16, 2018). "The Fight to Define Romans 13". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Platt, Brian (June 5, 2018). "Ontario Proud, the right-wing Facebook giant in Ontario's election, eyes federal election involvement". National Post. Archived from the original on August 18, 2019. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Nessen, Stephen (April 30, 2016). "4 Ways Donald Trump's Pro Wrestling Experience Is Like His Campaign Today". National Public Radio. Archivedfrom the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
- Newkirk, Vann R. (March 15, 2016). "Donald Trump, Wrestling Heel". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on December 1, 2020. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
- "6 Books to Help Understand Trump's Win". The New York Times. November 9, 2016. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
- Nwachukwu, John Owen (May 1, 2018). "Biafra: IPOB reacts to Trump's warning to Buhari on killing of Christians". Daily Post. Archived from the original on September 5, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
- Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia (February 7, 2020). "Trump trashes Nigeria and bans its immigrants. Nigerians love him for it". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 24, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
- O'Callaghan, Patrick (2020). "Reflections on the Root Causes of Outrage Discourse on Social Media". In Navin, Mark Christopher; Nunan, Richard (eds.). Democracy, Populism, and Truth. AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice. Vol. 9. Springer. pp. 115–126. S2CID 226512444.
- O'Connor, Brendon (October 29, 2020). "Who exactly is Trump's 'base'? Why white, working-class voters could be key to the US election". The Conversation. Archived from the original on January 29, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
- Oduah, Chika (November 14, 2016). "Nigeria's Biafra Separatists See Hope in Trump". VOA. Archived from the original on August 29, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
- S2CID 150814728.
- S2CID 152133074.
- Pape, Robert A. (April 6, 2021). "Understanding American Domestic Terrorism-Mobilization Potential and Risk Factors of a New Threat Trajectory" (PDF). Chicago Project on Security and Threats. University of Chicago. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- Parker, Ashley (November 16, 2020). "The ending of Trump's presidency echoes the beginning – with a lie". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- Paxton, Robert O. (January 11, 2021). "I've Hesitated to Call Donald Trump a Fascist. Until Now". Newsweek. Archived from the original on February 4, 2021. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
- Paravati, Elaine; Naidu, Esha; Gabriel, Shira; Wiedemann, Carl (December 23, 2019). "More than just a tweet: The unconscious impact of forming parasocial relationships through social media". Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. 7 (4): 388–403. S2CID 212834936.
- Partington, Richard (July 7, 2018). "Trump's trade war: What is it and which products are affected?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
- Peters, Jeremy W. (November 9, 2020). "Trump Lost the Race. But Republicans Know It's Still His Party". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
- Peters, Jeremy W. (February 17, 2021). "Rush Limbaugh's Legacy of Venom: As Trump Rose, 'It All Sounded Familiar'". The New York Times. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 9, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
- S2CID 56388590.
- Smith, Gregory A. (April 26, 2017). "Among white evangelicals, regular churchgoers are the most supportive of Trump". Pew Research Center. Archived from the original on March 12, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
- Phillips, Dom; Phillips, Tom (December 20, 2019). "Brazil: Bolsonaro in homophobic outburst as corruption scandal swirls". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 2, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- Pillar, Paul R. (September 17, 2020). "The Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu Alliance: Simply Bad News". The National Interest. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
- Plasser, Fritz; Ulram, Peter A. (2003). "Striking a Responsive Chord: Mass Media and. Right-Wing Populism in Austria". In Mazzoleni, Gianpietro; Stewart, Julianne; Horsfield, Bruce (eds.). The Media and Neo-Populism. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. ISBN 978-0275974923.
- Plott, Elaina (October 27, 2020). "Win or Lose, It's Donald Trump's Republican Party". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 29, 2020. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0062696212.
- Pulido, Lauro; Bruno, Tianna; Faiver-Serna, Cristina; Galentine, Cassandra (2019). "Environmental Deregulation, Spectacular Racism, and White Nationalism in the Trump Era". Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109 (2): 520–532. S2CID 159402163.
- Raupp, Eric (December 12, 2020). "Will Bolsonaro Leave Trumpism Behind to Embrace a Biden-led US?". Fair Observer. Archived from the original on December 18, 2020. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- Reicher, Stephen; Haslam, S. Alexander (November 19, 2016). "The politics of hope: Donald Trump as an entrepreneur of identity". Scientific American. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- S2CID 148743518.
- Robertson, Derek (May 16, 2020). "What Liberals Don't Get About Trump Supporters and Pop Culture". Politico. Archived from the original on January 30, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- Richardson, Michael (2017). "The Disgust of Donald Trump". Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 31 (6): 747–756. S2CID 148803267.
- Robison, Wade L. (2020). "#ConstitutionalStability". In Navin, Mark Christopher; Nunan, Richard (eds.). Democracy, Populism, and Truth. AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice. Vol. 9. Springer. pp. 179–191. from the original on January 15, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- Roper, Willern (January 8, 2021). "Nearly Half of Republicans Approve of Capitol Riot". Statista. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- Rosenfeld, Steven (August 9, 2019). "Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler's Early Rhetoric and Policies". Common Dreams. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
- Rosenberg, Matthew; Rutenberg, Jim (February 1, 2021). "Key Takeaways From Trump's Effort to Overturn the Election – A Times examination of the 77 days between election and inauguration shows how a lie the former president had been grooming for years overwhelmed the Republican Party and stoked the assault on the Capitol". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
- Ross, Alex (December 5, 2016). "The Frankfurt school knew Trump was coming". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on December 13, 2020. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
- Rudolf, Peter (2017). "The US under Trump: Potential consequences for transatlantic relations". In Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas (ed.). Peace Report 2017 (PDF). Vol. 29. Berlin/Münster/Zürich: LIT-Verlag, International Politics. ISBN 978-3643909329. Archived(PDF) from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- Rutenberg, Jim; Becker, Jo; Lipton, Eric; Haberman, Maggie; Martin, Jonathan; Rosenberg, Matthew; Schmidt, Michael S. (January 31, 2021). "77 Days: Trump's Campaign to Subvert the Election Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud – a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
- Samphir, Harrison (July 23, 2019). "The Post Millennial joins Conservative party's online booster club". NOW Magazine. Archived from the original on July 24, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- Schneider, Mac (April 21, 2017). "Marine Le Pen: France's Trump is on the rise". Vox. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- Schneiker, Andrea (2018). "Telling the Story of the Superhero and the Anti-Politician as President: Donald Trump's Branding on Twitter". Political Studies Association. 1 (14): 210–223. S2CID 150145298.
- Seeßlen, Georg (February 2, 2017). "Trompeten des Trumpismus" [Language attack of the right-wing populists: Trumpets of Trumpism]. Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- Serhan, Yasmeen (February 16, 2021). "What History Tells Us Will Happen to Trumpism". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on February 17, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- Serwer, Adam (November 20, 2017). "The Nationalist's Delusion". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- Shabad, Rebecca; Bennett, Geoff; Alba, Monica; Pettypiece, Shannon (June 2, 2020). "'The Bible is not a prop': Religious leaders, lawmakers outraged over Trump church visit". NBC News. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- Shellnutt, Kate (September 6, 2017). "Should Christians Keep Advising a President They Disagree With?". Christianity Today. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- Shenk, Timothy (August 16, 2016). "The dark history of Donald Trump's rightwing revolt". The Guardian. Archived from the original on April 14, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- Smith, Julianne; Townsend, Jim (July 9, 2018). "NATO in the Age of Trump:What it Can't and Can't Accomplish Absent U.S. Leadership". Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- Sobieraj, Sarah; Berry, Jeffrey M. (2011). "From Incivility to Outrage: Political Discourse in Blogs, Talk Radio, and Cable News". Political Communication. 28 (1): 19–41. S2CID 143739086.
- Solon, Olivia (November 10, 2016). "Facebook's failure: Did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on January 14, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
- ISBN 978-0062696212.
- S2CID 243377812.
- Stoller, Paul (April 27, 2017). "More on the Anthropology of Trump". Anthropology Now. 9 (1): 58–60. from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- Suessenbach, Felix; Moore, Adam B. (2020). "Dominance desires predicting conspiracy beliefs and Trump support in the 2016 U.S. Election" (PDF). Motivation Science. 6 (2): 171–176. S2CID 189448130. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
- Sundahl, Anne-Mette Holmgård (May 4, 2022). "Personality Cult or a Mere Matter of Popularity?". International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 36 (4): 431–458. PMID 35528318.
Trump, Putin and Ardern are used as examples of the model's ability to distinguish between cult and non-cult phenomena. The comparison shows that only Trump and Putin have a cult on both dimensions ... This paper introduced a model for distinguishing between popularity and personality cults based on three parameters covering a representational and social practice dimension. Putin, Trump and Ardern were used to illustrate the model's ability to categorise phenomena with different degrees of charisma. The analysis shows that while Trump and Putin belong in the domain of personality cults, Ardern's alleged cult does not have a social practice dimension, as the few cultlike tendencies are strictly representational.
- "What Brazil's President, Jair Bolsonaro, has said about Brazil's Indigenous Peoples". survivalinternational.org. 2020. Archived from the original on April 8, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- Swyngedouw, Marc; Ivaldi, Giles (December 2007). "The extreme right utopia in Belgium and France: The ideology of the Flemish Vlaams Blok and the French front national". West European Politics. 24 (3): 1–22. S2CID 144383766.
- Tabatabai, Ariane (July 15, 2020). "QAnon Goes to Iran". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on May 23, 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
- Tarnoff, Ben (November 9, 2016). "The triumph of Trumpism: the new politics that is here to stay". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
- Tashman, Brian (October 8, 2011). "Jeffress Says Satan Is Behind Roman Catholicism". Right Wing Watch. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
- Tharoor, Ishaan (July 11, 2018). "Trump's NATO trip shows 'America First' is 'America Alone'". The Washington Post. Washington D.C. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- Teague, Matthew (June 3, 2020). "'He wears the armor of God': evangelicals hail Trump's church photo op". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
- Matt Galloway (Host), Allan Rock (Guest) (November 6, 2020). "Allan Rock on what the presidential election means for U.S.-Canada relations". The Current. CBC. Archived from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Theidon, Kimberly (November 11, 2020). "A forecasted failure: Intersectionality, COVID-19, and the perfect storm". Journal of Human Rights. 95 (5): 528–536. S2CID 226308311.
- Thompson, Derek (December 30, 2020). "The Deep Story of Trumpism- Thinking about the Republican Party like a political psychiatrist". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- Thompson, Jack (June 12, 2017). "Understanding Trumpism: The foreign policy of the new American president" (PDF). Sirius: Journal of Strategic Analysis. 1 (2). (PDF) from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- Todd, Chuck; Murray, Mike; Dann, Carrie (April 28, 2021). "After 100 days out of office, Trump's support softens in NBC News poll". NBC News. Archived from the original on April 30, 2021. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- Tollefson, Jeff (February 4, 2021). "Tracking QAnon: how Trump turned conspiracy-theory research upside down" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on April 27, 2021. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
</ref>
- Trump, Donald J. (September 25, 2019). "Remarks of President Trump at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly". National Archives.
In everything we do, we are focused on empowering the dreams and aspirations of our citizens ... we will cast off the enemies of liberty and overcome the oppressors of dignity.
- Tucker, Erika (2018). "Hope, Hate and Indignation: Spinoza and Political Emotion in the Trump Era". In Sable, Marc Benjamin; Torres, Angel Jaramillo (eds.). Trump and Political Philosophy. London: Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 131–157. S2CID 149997363.
- Urbinati, Nadia (May 26, 2020). "On Trumpism, or the End of American Exceptionalism". Teoria Politica, Nuova Serie Annali. 9: 209–226. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
- Vallejo, Justin (February 28, 2021). "Donald Trump CPAC speech". The Independent. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
- Van Assche, Jasper; Dhont, Kristof; from the original on May 23, 2022. Retrieved October 13, 2020 – via ResearchGate.
- Van Hiel, Alain (March 2012). "A psycho-political profile of party activists and left-wing and right-wing extremists". European Journal of Political Research. 51 (2): 166–203. hdl:1854/LU-2109499. Archivedfrom the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- Van Hiel, Alain; Mervielde, Ivan (July 2006). "Explaining conservative beliefs and political preferences: A comparison of social dominance orientation and authoritarianism". Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 32 (5): 965–976. .
- Vescio, Theresa K.; Schermerhorn, Nathaniel E. (2021). "Hegemonic masculinity predicts 2016 and 2020 voting and candidate evaluations". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (2): e2020589118. PMID 33397724.
- Waisbord, Silvio; Tucker, Tina; Lichtenheld, Zoey (2018). "Trump and the Great Disruption in Public Communication". In Boczkowski, Pablo; Papacharissi, Zizi (eds.). Trump and the Media (e-book ed.). Cambridge: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262037969.
- Weber, Thomas (January 24, 2021). "Trump is not a fascist. But that didn't make him any less dangerous to our democracy". CNN (Opinion). Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved March 13, 2021.
- Wehner, Peter (July 5, 2016). "The Theology of Donald Trump". The New York Times (Opinion). New York. Archived from the original on January 14, 2021. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- Wehner, Peter (January 21, 2017). "Why I Cannot Fall in Line Behind Trump". The New York Times (Opinion). Archived from the original on February 13, 2021. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
- Wehner, Peter (July 5, 2019). "The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on April 23, 2021. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- Wehner, Peter (December 7, 2020). "Trump's Most Malicious Legacy". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 14, 2021. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
- Weisbrot, Mark (October 20, 2017). "Brazil's Donald Trump?". U.S. News & World Report (Opinion). Archived from the original on March 2, 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
- West, Cornel (November 17, 2016). "American Neoliberalism: A New Neo-Fascist Era Is Here". The Guardian (Opinion). Archived from the original on November 17, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
- National Observer (Canada) (interview). Archived from the originalon January 18, 2021. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
- Whitebook, Joel (March 20, 2017). "Opinion: Trump's Method, Our Madness". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 15, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- Whitehead, Andrew L.; Perry, Samuel L.; Baker, Joseph O. (January 25, 2018). "Make America Christian Again: Christian Nationalism and Voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election" (PDF). Sociology of Religion. 79 (2): 147–171. .
Why did Americans vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential election? Social scientists have proposed a variety of explanations, including economic dissatisfaction, sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. The current study establishes that, independent of these influences, voting for Trump was, at least for many Americans, a symbolic defense of the United States' perceived Christian heritage. Data from a national probability sample of Americans surveyed soon after the 2016 election shows that greater adherence to Christian nationalist ideology was a robust predictor of voting for Trump, even after controlling for economic dissatisfaction, sexism, anti-black prejudice, anti-Muslim refugee attitudes, and anti-immigrant sentiment, as well as measures of religion, sociodemographics, and political identity more generally.
- Will, George F. (July 10, 2020). "The difference between Trumpism and fascism" (Opinion). The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
- Wintour, Patrick (September 21, 2020). "US announces new Iran sanctions and claims it is enforcing UN arms embargo". from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
- Wolf, Zachary B. (November 9, 2020). "Election 2020: How the Trump administration's roadblocks could cause problems for Biden". CNN. Archived from the original on November 30, 2020. Retrieved February 16, 2021. Update November 10, 2020.
- Woods, Mel (June 11, 2020). "Erin O'Toole's 'Take Back Canada' Slogan Prompts Plenty Of Questions". HuffPost. Archived from the original on June 8, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- Womick, Jake; Rothmund, Tobias; Azevedo, Flavio; King, Laura A.; Jost, John T. (June 20, 2018). "Group-Based Dominance and Authoritarian Aggression Predict Support for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election" (PDF). Social Psychological and Personality Science. 10 (5): 643–652. (PDF) from the original on December 24, 2021. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
- Yang, Mimi (September 25, 2018). "Trumpism: a disfigured Americanism". Palgrave Communications. 4: 1–13. .
Trump's "America First" is not exactly original but from a culturally genetic and historic make-up that builds the vertical America. The xenophobic and anti-immigration rhetoric has its origin in nativism that harbors white nationalism, populism, protectionism and isolationism ... Trumpism is not Americanism, but a masqueraded white supremacism and nativism; it is a disfigured Americanism in its vertical form.
</ref> - Zaretsky, Robert (July 7, 2016). "Donald Trump and the myth of mobocracy". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on February 7, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- Zengerle, Patricia (February 2, 2019). "With eye on Afghanistan talks, Trump vows to stop 'endless wars'". Reuters.com. Archived from the original on November 7, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
- Zurcher, Anthony (August 26, 2020). "RNC 2020: The Republican Party Now the Party of Trump". BBC News. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2020.