This book provides a scholarly assessment and analysis of the Trump campaign and early presidency. This assessment and analysis is important not only to help provide some coherence to the turbulent and unpredictable character of "Trumpism," but to contribute to establishing a scholarly foundation for future works that will provide assessments of the Trump presidency in its mid and later stages. Given the divisive and destructive capacity of "Trumpism" and its political and social implications both domestically and internationally, understanding the distinctive political phenomenon of "Trumpism" is necessary if resistance to this transformative moment in American political history is to be successful. This book collects a series of short scholarly contributions on various themes related to "Trumpism" by scholars from disciplines in both the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Jeremy Kowalski is a Lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

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Notes on contributors

1. Introduction: The Emergence of America's Trump and Trumpism

Jeremy Kowalski

2. Gender and identity in the jigsaw puzzle of Trump's zero sum politics

Margaret Walton-Roberts

3. Trumpolect: Donald Trump's Distinctive Discourse and its Functions

Andrew McMurry

4. Donald Trump's Wall of Whiteness

William Major

5. Immigration Courts, Judicial Acceleration, and the Intensification of Immigration Enforcement in the First Year of the Trump Administration

Austin Kocher 6. The Political Economy of Donald J. Trump Jasmin Habib & Michael Howard

7. The Discourse on Terrorism of Donald Trump

Valentina Bartolucci

8. Inside the Trumpian Geopolitical Imagination

Jeremy Kowalski

9. Trump and Nuclear Weapons

Thomas MacManus

10. Coda: Political Crisis and the Reimagining of America

Jeremy Kowalski