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American Horror Show

Election 2016 and the Ascent of Donald J. Trump

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Authors:
  1. Douglas Kellner

    1. UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Los Angeles, USA

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  • Following Douglas Kellner’s American Nightmare (Sense Publishers 2016), The American Horror Show describes the last weeks of the 2016 election, Trump’s victory, his transition and construction of a scandal-ridden cabinet and administration, to his inaugural speech and the first 30 days of his presidency.
  • The text uses a multidimensional analysis to explain Trump’s victory, including his mobilization of an authoritarian populist movement, the use of fake news to attack Hillary Clinton, the intervention of FBI Director James Comey 11 days before the election, claiming that another investigation of Clinton’s emails was underway, and the intervention of Russian hacking of Democratic Party email and the use of this email against Clinton.
  • Questions are raised concerning relationships between the Russian hacking and attacks against Clinton and members of Trump’s campaign; the remarkable positive remarks from Trump concerning Putin, followed by putting pro-Putin Republicans in key posts of his administration, raise questions about Trump administration relations and connections to Russia.
  • The first 30 days of Trump’s administration show that he is a rightwing billionaire and militarist who has carried out an extreme rightwing Republican agenda and is not a populist concerned about the working class.

Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Presidential Debates, the Access Hollywood Tapes, and Donald the Deplorable

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 1-15

  3. The October FBI Bombshell and Comey’s Intervention

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 17-26

  4. The Final Week, the November Surprise, and Banana Republicanism

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 27-38

  5. Spectacle of Horror: Brexit Plus, Angry White People, and the National Nightmare

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 39-56

  6. Unforeseen Consequences of a Trump Presidency

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 57-65

  7. Drain the Swamp: The Alligators of Wall Street, Billionaire Snakes of Corporate America, Swamp Creatures of Washington, and Militarist Generals

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 67-87

  8. Conflicts of Interest and Family Nepotism, Fake News and Telephone Diplomacy

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 89-102

  9. Trump at War: Media, Corporations, Ordinary Citizens, and the U.S. Intelligence Services

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 103-108

  10. The Hacked Election, The Swamp of Scandal, and Constitutional Crisis

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 109-113

  11. American Nightmare and the Disaster of Election 2016

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 115-121

  12. Swamp King

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 123-131

  13. Donald J. Trump: Useful Idiot or Putin’s Poodle?

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 133-143

  14. The American Horror Show: Donald Trump Becomes 45th U.S. President

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 145-157

  15. Rightwing Billionaire Authoritarian – Not Populist

    • Douglas Kellner
    Pages 159-171

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 173-191
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American Horror Show describes the last weeks of the 2016 election, Trump’s victory, his transition and construction of a scandal-ridden cabinet and administration, to his inaugural speech and the first 30 days of his presidency. The text uses a multidimensional analysis to explain Trump’s victory, including his mobilization of an authoritarian populist movement, the use of fake news to attack Hillary Clinton, the intervention of FBI Director James Comey 11 days before the election, claiming that another investigation of Clinton’s emails was underway, and the intervention of Russian hacking of Democratic Party email and the use of this email against Clinton. Questions are raised concerning relationships between the Russian hacking and attacks against Clinton and members of Trump’s campaign. The remarkable positive remarks from Trump concerning Putin, followed by putting pro-Putin Republicans in key posts of his administration, raise questions about Trump administration relations and connections to Russia. Finally, the first 30 days of Trump’s administration show that he is a rightwing billionaire and militarist who has carried out an extreme rightwing Republican agenda and is not a populist concerned about the working class.

Authors and Affiliations

  • UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Los Angeles, USA

    Douglas Kellner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: American Horror Show

  • Book Subtitle: Election 2016 and the Ascent of Donald J. Trump

  • Authors: Douglas Kellner

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-974-4

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-974-4Published: 09 June 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CXCII, 18

  • Topics: Education, general

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