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.

Table of Contents
 
Notes on contributors
 
1.      Introduction: The Emergence of Americäs 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
 

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