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9781474458894 Trumps Ameri Trump’s America 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd i 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM New Perspectives on the American Presidency Series Editors: Michael Patrick Cullinane and Sylvia Ellis, University of Roehampton Published titles Constructing Presidential Legacy: How We Remember the American President Edited by Michael Patrick Cullinane and Sylvia Ellis Presidential Privilege and the Freedom of Information Act Kevin M. Baron Donald Trump and American Populism Richard S. Conley Trump’s America: Political Culture and National Identity Edited by Liam Kennedy Forthcoming titles Obama v. Trump: The Politics of Rollback Clodagh Harrington and Alex Waddan Obama’s Fractured Presidency: Policies and Politics Edited by François Vergniolle de Chantal The White House, the War on Poverty and the GOP Mark McLay Midterms and Mandates Patrick Andelic, Mark McLay and Robert Mason Harry S. Truman and Higher Education Rebecca Stone Series website: <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/ new-perspectives-on-the-american-presidency.html> 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd iiii 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM TRUMP’S AMERICA Political Culture and National Identity Edited by Liam Kennedy 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd iiiiii 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM For Milla S.B.S. Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © editorial matter and organisation Liam Kennedy, 2020 © the chapters their several authors, 2020 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 11/13 Adobe Sabon by IDSUK (DataConnection) Ltd, and printed and bound in Great Britain. A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 5887 0 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 5889 4 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 5890 0 (epub) The right of Liam Kennedy to be identifi ed as the editor of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd iivv 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Acknowledgements viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Making Sense of Trump’s America 1 Liam Kennedy Part One: Paradigm Shift 1. Donald Trump’s Settler-Colonist State (Fantasy): A New Era of Illiberal Hegemony? 23 Donald E. Pease 2. Caesarism Revisited: Cultural Studies and the Question of Trumpism 53 Stephen Shapiro 3. Hegemoronic Vistas: The Pseudo-Gramscian Right from the Powell Memorandum to the ‘Flight 93 Election’ 72 Frank Kelleter 4. Women Voters and Activists in Trump’s America 107 Melissa Deckman and Kelley M. Gardner Part Two: Foreign Policy and Global Relations 5. Angry at the World: Progressive Possibilities in Trump’s Disruption of the Current Order 135 Patrick McGreevy 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd v 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM content s 6. Trump or the Cultural Logic of ‘Late’ Democracy 150 David Ryan 7. The End of the Age of Three Worlds and the Making of the Trump Presidency 177 Penny Von Eschen 8. Trumpism and the Future of US Grand Strategy 204 Jack (John M.) Thompson 9. From George W. Bush to Donald Trump: Understanding the Exceptional Resilience of Democracy Promotion in US Political Discourse 222 Eugenio Lilli Part Three: Identity Politics and the Politics of Spectacle 10. ‘If You Want to Know Why 2016 Happened, Read This Book’: Class, Race and the Literature of Disinvestment (the Case of Hillbilly Elegy) 247 Hamilton Carroll 11. Ivanka Trump and the New Plutocratic (Post)feminism 268 Diane Negra 12. Trump and the Age of Hybrid Media Communicators 289 Alireza Hajihosseini 13. ‘Reality Has a Well-Known Liberal Bias’: The End(s) of Satire in Trump’s America 310 Liam Kennedy 14. Spectacle of Decency: Repairing America after Trump 335 Scott Lucas Index 366 vi 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd vvii 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM Tables and Figures Table 2.1 The kit of social convergences at analogous crisis years/conjunctures 69 Figure 4.1. Vote (percentage) for Trump and Clinton in 2016: women only 109 Figure 4.2. 2016 Presidential vote choice among white women by religion, education, age and gender attitudes 111 Figure 4.3. Percentage of women approving of Trump’s job performance 116 Figure 11.1. In their cameo appearance in an episode of teen drama Gossip Girl, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are presented as an exemplary ‘power couple’ on the rise 273 Figure 11.2. The failure of Ivanka Trump’s 2017 self-help book Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success augured a shift in her marketability 278 Figure 11.3. Ivanka Trump’s tweeted photo with son Theodore gained notoriety as a display of triumphalist privilege in 2018 when Donald Trump’s government was separating asylum seekers at the US border from their children 281 Figure 11.4. Meghan McCain drew plaudits for her speech at John McCain’s funeral in which she repudiated Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan 282 Figure 13.1. ‘The Deplorables’ meme 323 vii 6425_Kennedy.indd vii 29/07/20 4:22 PM Acknowledgements This volume began as a conference at the Clinton Institute at Uni- versity College Dublin. I owe thanks to Catherine Carey for her help in organising that event and supporting this project in many ways. Thanks to Scott Lucas, Donald Pease and Stephen Shapiro for their enthusiasm and ideas along the way. viii 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd vviiiiii 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM Contributors Hamilton Carroll is Associate Professor of English at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Affi rmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity (2011) and editor of ‘Fictions of Speculation’, a special issue of the Journal of American Studies (2015). Melissa Deckman is the Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs at Washington College, whose area of specialities include gender, religion and political behaviour in American politics. Her latest book is Tea Party Women: Mama Grizzlies, Grassroot Leaders, and the Changing Face of the American Right (2016). She also co-authored the bestselling textbook Women and Politics (2007) with Julie Dolan and Michele Swers. In addition, she is the author or co-author of more than a dozen scholarly articles. Her fi rst book, School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics (2004), won the Hubert Morken Award, given by the American Political Science Association biennially to the best work on religion and politics. Kelley M. Gardner graduated summa cum laude from Washington College in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and sociology and a minor in gender studies. At Washington College, she served as Dr Melissa Deckman’s research assistant, studied abroad at the London School of Economics and Political Sci- ence, and interned with the Governance Studies programme at the Brookings Institution. Her undergraduate research focused on women in politics, public policy and gender discrimination. ix 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd iixx 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM contributors Alireza Hajihosseini has worked as a producer in Tehran cover- ing Iranian current affairs for an international audience and was working for Al Jazeera English in the network’s heyday during the Arab Spring. He is currently the executive producer of CNN International’s fl agship current affairs programme Connect the World with Becky Anderson, broadcast from the network’s Mid- dle East broadcasting hub in Abu Dhabi. Frank Kelleter is chair of the Department of Culture and Einstein Professor of North American Cultural History at John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin. He is the director of the Popular Seriality Research Unit (PSRU), a transdisciplinary group consist- ing of thirteen projects, funded by the German Research Associa- tion (2010–16). His monographs include David Bowie (2016), Serial Agencies: ‘The Wire’ and Its Readers (2014) and Con/Tradi- tion: Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, the Million Man March, and American Civil Religion (2000). His edited volumes include Media of Serial Narrative (2017), Populäre Serialität (2012), American Studies as Media Studies (2011) and Melodrama! The Mode of Excess from Early America to Hollywood (2007). Liam Kennedy is Professor of American Studies and director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. He is the author of Susan Sontag (1995), Race and Urban Space in American Culture (2000) and Afterimages: Photography and US Foreign Policy (2016). His edited books include Urban Space and Representation (1999), The Wire: Race, Class, and Genre (2012), The Violence of the Image: Photography and Inter- national Confl ict (2014) and Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature (2019). Eugenio Lilli is a lecturer at the Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin. Previously, he lectured at King’s College London, the UK Defence Academy and John Cabot University in Rome. He was also an honorary visiting research fel- low at City University in London. He obtained his PhD from the War Studies Department at King’s College London. Recent pub- lications include the book New Beginning in US–Muslim Rela- tions: President Obama and the Arab Awakening (2016). x 66425_Kennedy.indd425_Kennedy.indd x 229/07/209/07/20 44:22:22 PPMM contributors Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Univer- sity of Birmingham. He has also been a professional journalist since 1979, and is the founder and editor of EA Worldview (www.
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