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Trumpism: a disfigured Americanism

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  • Mimi Yang

    (Carthage College, Modern Languages)

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The current cultural turmoil in the U.S. is much associated with Trumpism. This article asserts that Trumpism has its ideological root in nativism, a cultural tradition perpetuated by John Higham. To point out the disfigured Americanism in Trumpism, this paper theorizes the vertical America and the horizontal America, and dissects their complex interplay and symbiosis in an evolving American culture. The vertical Americanism sets hierarchies to secure power and control as well as maintain racial and cultural “purity;” the horizontal Americanism, epitomized by Martin Luther King and Barack Obama, equalizes and connects across races, creeds, and social classes. The color line (in Dubois’ term) thus becomes a converging and diverging boundary between the two Americas; it harbors and delineates Trumpism. It is argued that disfigurement of Americanism comes from a disruptive and destructive interplay of the vertical and the horizontal in Trump’s America.

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  • Mimi Yang, 2018. "Trumpism: a disfigured Americanism," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 4(1), pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:4:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1057_s41599-018-0170-0
    DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0170-0
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    1. Mimi Yang, 2017. "Crossing between the Great Wall of China and the “Great” Trump Wall," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 3(1), pages 1-6, December.
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    2. Kohnert, Dirk, 2023. "QAnon and other conspiracy ideologies’ impact on Sub-Saharan Africa in the age of Global capitalism," MPRA Paper 115917, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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