President Trump, Inc. : how big business and neoliberalism empower populism and the far-right / T. J. Coles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coles, T. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

Trump, Donald.

Corporations--Political aspects.

Corporations.

United States--Politics and government--2009-2017.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--2017-2021.

Business and politics--United States.

Business and politics.

Corporations--Political aspects--United States.

Corporations--Political activity--United States.

Corporations--Political activity.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

West Hoathly, W. Sussex : Clairview Books Ltd., 2017.

Summary:

With Trump in the White House, big business has direct power in government. Trump has stacked his cabinet with former employees of investment banks, big oil, and international corporations. Now that big business has its representatives in the cabinet, it no longer needs to indulge in expensive lobbying. Under Trump, corporations control US policy. How and why did this happen and what does it mean for the bulk of the population? T. J. Coles presents the background to Trump's rise, tracing the history of economic neoliberalism. He shows what a 'liberal economy' means in practice: privatization of public resources, cutting 'red tape' for corporations, and internationalizing volatile money markets. For ordinary working people, neoliberalism translates to ongoing falls in living standards, fewer protections for workers, spiraling housing costs, and social cutbacks. As a consequence, many voters are turning their backs on mainstream politics, with some supporting far-right populist parties, including the Trump faction of the Republican Party and UKIP in Britain - despite the fact that these parties support the very policies that make ordinary people poorer. President Trump, Inc. exposes the Trump hoax. Trump sold himself as a maverick, but in reality big business has been lobbying Congress for years to do what he campaigned for: tearing up the international TPP trade agreement, keeping out low-skilled immigrants while fast-tracking specific foreign workers, and helping repatriate corporations to the US. Trump's apparently personal agenda - Make America Great Again - is actually big business's wish list. Coles concludes on a positive note, offering tangible hope. Real change, he notes, never comes from the top-down. Millions of people all over the world are working at local level to win power back from centralized elites for their communities. The first step in this process of true democratization is to understand what's really happening, and Coles' essential analysis provides a clear picture of the present reality. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Background to the Crises

1 Neoliberalism: Our common enemy 31

2 Class divisions and union decline 43

3 America's far-right: Disappointment gets angry 52

4 Europe's far-right: Poverty gets angry 62

5 Alt-right now: Billionaire populism 77

Part 2 The Trump Deception

6 President Trump: Soul of a rebel 93

7 Privatization as policy 104

8 Trade deals and tax reform 120

9 Foreign policy: 'Carry a big stick' 134.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781905570874

1905570872

OCLC:

990638585

Publisher Number:

99974664418