“Bigly” Interpellations
Trump and the Crisis of American Ideology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.11.173Keywords:
Ideology, American Politics, Trump, Donald J. Trump, Interpellation, PopulismAbstract
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency sent shockwaves throughout the political sphere both domestically and internationally. The intrusion of such a volatile and abnormal political figure led to lacklustre analyses of the populism that buoyed his rise. This article will show how American populism is both a direct reaction to and an outcome of a dominant ideology upheld by the institutionalised American political class. After first outlining what type of ideological framework will be utilised, this article will then show how Trump is a symbolic representation of the crisis that American ruling ideology is undergoing.
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