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Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Mass Society
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2024
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In Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Mass Society, Albert P. Melone studies Trump’s behavioral patterns in the fourth year of his presidential term and the three tumultuous years leading to the 2024 presidential election. Melone analyzes the leading explanatory paradigm of American government and politics by utilizing the democratic and aristocratic criticisms of mass society theory to better describe and explain the behavior of Donald Trump and his followers. The initial chapters outline the theoretical framework, the mass movement characteristics, and its membership’s cult-like behavior. Two significant events of the last year of Trump’s administration— the pandemic and the politics surrounding the Black Lives Matter demonstrations— illustrate Trump’s leadership style and the behavioral patterns of the MAGA mass movement. The 2020 election and the attempt to reverse its outcome is a central topic throughout the text, including a discussion of Trump’s second impeachment, the efforts of the House Select Committee on January 6th, voter reactions in the 2022 midterm elections, and the various political and legal attempts to make Trump accountable for his role in the so-called insurrection at the nation’s Capitol. In the final chapter, Melone critically analyzes alternative prescriptions to right the ship of state with a steely eye focused on the realities and possibilities to salvage the democratic republic from an autocratic future.
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Edition
1/2024
Copyright Year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-66694-208-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-4209-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
330
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Theoretical Perspective No access Pages 9 - 32
Mass Movements and the True Believers No access Pages 33 - 54
Pandemic Debacle No access Pages 55 - 76
Black Lives Matter No access Pages 77 - 90
Presidential Election 2020 No access Pages 91 - 102
Campaign to Reverse Election Outcome No access Pages 103 - 124
A Second Impeachment No access Pages 125 - 140
Political Fallout No access Pages 141 - 156
January 6th Committee No access Pages 157 - 192
Message Delivered No access Pages 193 - 214
Voter Attitudes, Demographics, and 2022 Midterm Elections No access Pages 215 - 232
Candidate Endorsements and Running Again No access Pages 233 - 252
Accountability No access Pages 253 - 270
The Long Arm of the Law and Public Opinion No access Pages 271 - 288
Political Culture Tested No access Pages 289 - 306
