The rise of Trump : America's authoritarian spring /
The ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidential candidacy of the Republican Party has been both remarkable and, to most commentators, unlikely. The author argues that Trump's rapid rise through a bewildered Republican Party hierarchy is no anomaly. Rather, MacWilliams argues, it is the most...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst, Massachusetts :
Amherst College Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Public works (Amherst College Press)
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| Summary: | The ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidential candidacy of the Republican Party has been both remarkable and, to most commentators, unlikely. The author argues that Trump's rapid rise through a bewildered Republican Party hierarchy is no anomaly. Rather, MacWilliams argues, it is the most recent expression of a long-standing theme in American political life, the tendency and temptation to an ascriptive politics, a political view that builds its basic case on ascribing to any relatively disempowered group (whether defined by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief or other identifying category) a certain set of qualities that justify discriminatory treatment. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 52 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-52). |
| ISBN: | 9781943208029 1943208026 |