Donald Trump, made in the U.S.A. : a study in consumer capitalism, mental trash and the privatization of white America / Jon Huer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huer, Jon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political psychology.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

Trump, Donald.

Political science.

Political psychology--United States.

Political corruption--United States.

Political corruption.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

xiii, 192 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Donald Trump made in the United States of America

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Hamilton Books, [2017]

Summary:

We in the U.S. have deserves someone like Donald Trump as out president for some time. Until now, by a string of luck, we had mostly centrist presidents, both Republican and Democratic, some with only a modicum of intelligence and humanity. With Donald Trump, however, we finally tan out of luck and he is our sitting president. Now, the spotlight is focused on him, but we easily forget that he is, after all, a product of his own society. Trump's rise to power owes itself to its own social-historical circumstances. For decades now America's Consumer Society had prepared the American voters, mostly White, to find someone like Trump as their leader, by supplying them with around-the-clock distractions that made them feel good, happy and falsely powerful. Trump's ascendancy could not be possible without our consumption of daily entertainment which makes us selfish, childish and idiotic human beings. Such minds are easily affected by anxiety, anger and vengefulness. In our daily sea of popular entertainment of mass circulation, we have become trash cans-Mental Trash Cans-that exist just to process trash that enters and leaves our minds almost at the same time. This wasted mind, America's most celebrated symbol of success that is created by its best and brightest, keeps us away from one another as we become privatized citizens and neighbors in our individual cocoons, lonely, scared, dumbed down, living and dying with our solitary unconnected lives. Into this vacuum of intelligence and humanity, enter Donald Trump, the entertainer billionaire, now the President, who, with his brand of populist Fascism, challenges the powers of entrenched Corporate Americans by separating them from non-whites, thus revealing America's nationalism and racism, hitherto papered over in its Liberal-Capitalist consumer paradise. The common Americans, whether White or non-white, possess two prized items that Corporate and Political America covets and wants to take from them, the dollar and the vote. The American Masses, now as garbage fed children, are neither smart nor united enough to protect the two critical weapons of their democracy. Trump's presidency proves it. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The (White) Children's Crusade 7

2 Trump's America We Hardly Knew 15

3 The Day of Revelation 25

4 The Child with a Loaded Gun 31

5 Trump's "Moral Immunity" 41

6 Who Created the Monster? 49

7 The Nature of "White Anger" 57

8 Trump between Capitalism and Fascism 63

9 The Nation Divided, Once Again 75

10 The End of a Demagogue 85

11 The American Character 95

12 Trump's Conquest of America 105

13 Mental Trash 115

14 The Lost Mind 129

15 Capitalism Triumphant 141

16 Capitalism Eternal 157

17 How Money Buys the Law 167

18 The Ten Reminders 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index.

ISBN:

9780761869276

0761869271

OCLC:

983608861

Publisher Number:

99972795093