13 ‘Reality Has a Well-Known Liberal Bias’:1 The End(s) of Satire in Trump’s America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Contributors ix
6. Introduction: Making Sense of Trump’s America 1
7. Part One. Paradigm Shift
8. 1 Donald Trump’s Settler-Colonist State (Fantasy): A New Era of Illiberal Hegemony? 21
9. 2 Caesarism Revisited: Cultural Studies and the Question of Trumpism 53
10. 3 Hegemoronic Vistas: The Pseudo-Gramscian Right from the Powell Memorandum to the ‘Flight 93 Election’ 72
11. 4 Women Voters and Activists in Trump’s America 107
12. Part Two. Foreign Policy and Global Relations
13. 5 Angry at the World: Progressive Possibilities in Trump’s Disruption of the Current Order 133
14. 6 Trump or the Cultural Logic of ‘Late’ Democracy 150
15. 7 The End of the Age of Three Worlds and the Making of the Trump Presidency 177
16. 8 Trumpism and the Future of US Grand Strategy 204
17. 9 From George W. Bush to Donald Trump: Understanding the Exceptional Resilience of Democracy Promotion in US Political Discourse 222
18. Part Three. Identity Politics and the Politics of Spectacle
19. 10 ‘If You Want to Know Why 2016 Happened, Read This Book’: Class, Race and the Literature of Disinvestment (the Case of Hillbilly Elegy) 245
20. 11 Ivanka Trump and the New Plutocratic (Post)feminism 268
21. 12 Trump and the Age of Hybrid Media Communicators 289
22. 13 ‘Reality Has a Well-Known Liberal Bias’:1 The End(s) of Satire in Trump’s America 310
23. 14 Spectacle of Decency: Repairing America after Trump 335
24. Index 366