The rise of Trump : : America's Authoritarian Spring / / Matthew C. MacWilliams.

• Superior document: Public works from the Amherst College Press.
• Author: MacWilliams, Matthew C.
• Place / Publishing House: Amherst, Massachusetts : : Amherst College Press,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Public works (Amherst College Press)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 41 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Introduction --; America's ascriptive tradition and Donald Trump --; The study of authoritarianism --; Defining authoritarianism --; Authoritarianism and threat --; Measuring authoritarianism --; Measuring American authoritarians' support for Donald Trump --; The role of fear and authoritarianism in Trump's rise --; How do we know that Trump's supporters are authoritarian? --; Trump 2016: anomalous outlier or turning point? --; America's choice: is America's Authoritarian Spring a harbinger of America's coming fall?
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-52).
• ISBN: 1943208034
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Matthew C. MacWilliams.

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.