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Trumping Politics as Usual - Masculinity, Misogyny, and the 2016 Elections (Paperback)
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Trumping Politics as Usual - Masculinity, Misogyny, and the 2016 Elections (Paperback)
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In many elections, candidates frame their appeals in gendered
ways-they compete, for instance, over who is more "masculine." This
is the case for male and female candidates alike. In the 2016
presidential election, however, the stark choice between the first
major-party female candidate and a man who exhibited a persistent
pattern of misogyny made the use of gender more prominent than in
any previous election in the United States. Presidential campaigns
often have an impact on downballot Congressional races, but the
2016 election provided a new opportunity to see the effects of
misogyny. While much has been written about the 2016 election-and
the shadow of 2016 clearly affected the pool of candidates in the
2018 midterms-this book looks at how the Trump and Clinton
campaigns actually changed the behavior of more conventional
candidates for Congress in 2016 and 2018. Over the past decade,
those who study political parties have sought to understand changes
in the relationship between groups and parties and how these
changes have affected the ability of parties to develop coherent
campaign strategies. The clear need for rapid adjustments in party
strategy in the 2016 election provides an ideal means of testing
whether today's political parties are more able or less able to
respond to unexpected events. This book argues that Donald Trump's
candidacy radically altered the nature of the 2016 congressional
campaigns in two ways. First, it changed the issues of contention
in many of these races. Trump's provocative calls for building a
wall along the Mexican border and temporarily prohibiting
immigration from Muslim countries inserted issues of race and
ethnicity into elections and forced candidates to respond to his
proposals. Most consequentially, however, Trump's attacks on
women-including television personalities, politicians, and, at
times, private citizens-alienated numerous potential supporters and
placed many of his supporters (and downballot Republican candidates
in particular) on the defensive. Second, expectations that Trump
would lose the election influenced how candidates for lower office
campaigned and how willing they were to connect their fortunes to
those of their party's nominee. The fact that Trump was expected to
lose-and was expected to lose in large part because of his
misogyny-caused both major parties to direct more of their
resources toward congressional races, and led many Republican
candidates, especially women, to distance themselves from Trump.
This book explores how the Trump and Clinton campaigns used gender
as a political weapon, and how the presidential race changed the
ways in which House and Senate campaigns were waged in 2016 and
2018.
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