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Under the cover of chaos : Trump and the battle for the American right /

Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings ofabandonment, resentment and rage? Lawrence Grossberg shows that...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: GROSSBERG, LAWRENCE
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : PLUTO Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Are Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings ofabandonment, resentment and rage? Lawrence Grossberg shows that the truth is bigger and more frightening. Locating Trumpism in the long struggle among traditional conservatism, the new right and the reactionary right, he suggests that the chaos is farmore significant and strategic ... and dangerous. Taking the arguments of the reactionary right seriously, he projects a possible, nightmarish future: a cultural nationalism governed by a popular corporatocracy. He lays bare how contemporary political struggles are being shaped by a changing national landscape of moods and feelings, marked by a growing absolutism of judgement and belief, and new forms of anxiety, alienation and narcissism.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781786802699
1786802694
0745337910
9780745337913