... and methods that have enlivened him across a distinguished career, and brings up-to-date the narrative of US state fantasy he has developed across several presidencies. He evaluates the imaginative strategies President Donald Trump (at the time of the interview, a candidate) perfected during his campaign...

..., from the consequences of how things turn out, our commitments to be. The essay ends with a consideration of the dysfunction of liberal responses to Donald Trump's cynicism. benjamin_parker@brown.edu Copyright ©2023 by Duke University Press 2023 cynicism Henry James Victorian cynicism...

...Donald E. Pease Abstract How and why have freedom and social hierarchies and exclusions become fused in Trump's America? What causative factors can explain the emergence within twenty-first century US political culture of a movement notorious for its attacks on basic norms of tolerance, civility...

... Hiroko . 2017 . “ Sensing Gains Ahead under Trump, the Kochs Court Minorities .” New York Times , January 5 , 2017 . https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/business/energy-environment/koch-brothers-fossil-fuels-minorities.html . Taibbi Matt . 2017 . “ Matt Taibbi on Donald Trump’s...

... . www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533 . Martin John Levi . 2001 . “The Authoritarian Personality, 50 Years Later: What Lessons Are There for Political Psychology?” Political Psychology 22 , no. 1 : 1 – 26 . Meloen Jos . 1991 . “The Fortieth...

... Donald Trump's victory in 2016, and this introduction was written the year following his removal from office, in 2022. In the interim, we, the coeditors, found ourselves increasingly immersed in the development of the so-called alt-right and white nationalism more broadly. We quickly realized that we...

.... The charismatic Obama, whose absence is being mourned by many because of his bizarre successor, was in reality some- one who stood at the pinnacle of the US drone killing complex. The list was handed over to Donald Trump at the beginning of 2017. During his campaign, Trump made more than clear that he had...

... to the indicative, marks out the space of political and epistemic intervention that Fascism Today inhabits. The recognition that “now it could happen here” mimes, by means of indirect discourse, an entire structure of US public thought and feeling, one catalyzed by the campaign and election of Donald Trump...

... it makes us feel better to imagine that the election of Donald Trump brought upon us unspeakable things: the slow buildup of horror, the contagion of meanness and hate that bestirs the heart and kills the soul. But the strictures of civil death, disenfranchisement, and arbitrary detention have long been...

....” 6 Evidently, Bernstein was referring to the prophetic lines like “Ballad Laid Bare” written at the beginning of 2017, before Donald Trump's inauguration: A little bit south of here, in Washington Next week's gonna get a whiff of Armageddon Billionaire racist takin’ over 1600 Pennsylvania...

...Colin Dayan In the dark drama and shock tactics of the Trump White House, I found myself obsessed with Dorothy Dandridge, a woman I had been quite unaware of until now. In following her traces, I recall the South in the sixties, race discrimination and raw hate, as well as recognize her particular...

..., exemplified by President Barack Obama, which justifies police violence in the name of Law and Order, while timidly (and only occa- sionally) acknowledging the injustices it also involves, and the contrasting discourse of a Donald Trump, which tends to avoid such nuances by encour- aging simplistic...

... and its structuring around spheres of influence, also situates its seemingly paradoxical claims to global capital and the remaking of an authoritarian political entrepreneur. From Donald Trump to Poland's Jarosław Kaczyński and Hungary's Viktor Orban, the grotesque authority of the “big man,” whom Lauren...

..., often before it takes hold. And not because of its failure but on account of its success. In the US, Donald Trump is least popular among voters who went to college. You could say that it's my class bias against him, but perhaps a college education initiates citizens into a world of critical thought...

... in the United States of Donald Trump and in the Russia of Vladimir Putin (among others: Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Philippines, Myanmar), the entire documentary tradition with its reliance on the archival as a source of past evidentiary truths (say, the use of films and photographs in Ken Burns and Lynn Novick s...

... instrumental in persuad- Some 6.8 million tourists ing Donald Trump and NBC to bring come to Hawaiai each year looking the event to Hawaiai for the first for that special something out there time. Lee, who is one-fourth Korean in the remote-yet-near Pacific. In and an ethnic mix of Hawaiian, Chi...

...Donald E. Pease The essay “States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement” analyzes the recent populist conservatism in terms of the disparate fantasies convoking its disparate constituencies. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea...

... of that whole. The arguments in favor of the Leave vote in the UK, Donald Trump's “Make America Great Again” slogan, and the extreme right-wing conservatism of Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro all appeal to the political fantasy of restoring a national cohesion that has been lost. It is a fantasy that can only become...

... not combine them. The subjective impression of a thing is recogniz- ably illusory, but this image opens up an idea that has the kind of mental reality that trumps the thing. This is why Proust is finally able to imply that involuntary memories are an optical illusion of past and present seeming...

... makes such distinctions hard to maintain. Indeed, the influential Defense Policy Board, whose members in- clude Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Palumbo-Liu / Multiculturalism Now 123 Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Kissinger, Newt...