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American Discontent - The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age (Hardcover)
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American Discontent - The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age (Hardcover)
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The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent
memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of
candidate than voters were used to seeing. He was the first true
outsider to win the White House in over a century and the
wealthiest populist in American history. Democrats and Republicans
alike were left scratching their heads-how did this happen? In
American Discontent, John L. Campbell contextualizes Donald Trump's
ascendance to the presidency by focusing on the long-developing
economic, racial, ideological, and political shifts that enabled
Trump to win the White House. Campbell argues that Trump's rise to
power was the culmination of a half-century of deep, slow-moving
change in America, beginning with the decline of the Golden Age of
prosperity that followed the Second World War. The worsening
economics anxieties of many Americans reached a tipping point when
the 2008 financial crisis and Barack Obama's election, as the first
African American president, finally precipitated the worst
political gridlock in generations. Campbell emphasizes the deep
structural and historical factors that enabled Trump's rise to
power. Since the 1970s and particularly since the mid-1990s,
conflicts over how to restore American economic prosperity, how to
cope with immigration and racial issues, and the failings of
neoliberalism have been gradually dividing liberals from
conservatives, whites from minorities, and Republicans from
Democrats. Because of the general ideological polarization of
politics, voters were increasingly inclined to believe alternative
facts and fake news. Grounded in the underlying economic and
political changes in America that stretch back decades, American
Discontent provides a short, accessible, and nonpartisan
explanation to Trump's rise to power.
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