TY - BOOK AU - MacWilliams,Matthew C. ED - Project Muse. TI - The Rise of Trump : : America's Authoritarian Spring / T2 - Public works SN - 9781943208036 PY - 2016///] CY - Amherst, Massachusetts PB - Amherst College Press KW - Trump, Donald, KW - Presidents KW - Election KW - fast KW - Political culture KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Authoritarianism KW - United States KW - 2016 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Open Access N2 - The ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidential candidacy of the Republican Party has been both remarkable and, to most commentators, unlikely. The author argues that Trump's rapid rise through a bewildered Republican Party hierarchy is no anomaly; rather, it is the most recent expression of a long-standing theme in American political life, the tendency and temptation to an ascriptive politics--a political view that builds its basic case on ascribing to any relatively disempowered group (whether defined by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, or other identifying category) a certain set of qualities that justify discriminatory treatment.--Publisher's description UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/98630/ ER -