This Happened Here - Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America

List of contents

Introduction: “The Hell it Can’t”; 1. One Night of Dancing, 77 Days of Fear and Death; 2. The Fascist Wolf Defined and Foretold; 3. A Fascist in the White House, 2017–21; 4. The Anatomy of Fascism Denial; 5. Amerikaners and Trumpenvolk; 6. America Was Never Great: On “The Soul of This Nation”; 7. De-Trumping America; Afterword: A Sleepwalking Interregnum?

About the author

Paul Street is an independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist, historian, and speaker. He is the author of nine books, most recently Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement. Street writes regularly for Counterpunch.

Summary

This book examines the Trump phenomenon as fascist. Fascism here connotes not "bad" politics or a consolidated regime but a set of political, movement, and ideological traits understood in the context of the neoliberal-capitalist era.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Street, Street Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2021
• EAN: 9781032150611
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215061-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity