Chapter 5. Trumpism and the Dual Tracks of American Polarization

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: An Unsettled Time 1
4. PART I. PARTY LEGACIES AND THE 2016 ELECTION
5. Chapter 1. The Scrambled Cycle: Realignment, PoliticalTime, and the Trump Presidency 13
6. Chapter 2. The Limits of Policy Feedback as a Party- Building Tool 28
7. Chapter 3. Presidential Nominations, Factional Conflict, and Prospects for Democratic Party Reform 40
8. PART II. RACE AND NATION IN TRUMP’S AMERICA
9. Chapter 4. “One People, Under One God, Saluting One American Flag”: Trump, the Republican Party, and the Construction of American Nationalism 55
10. Chapter 5. Trumpism and the Dual Tracks of American Polarization 68
11. Chapter 6. Black Lives Matter from Wilson to Trump: Social Movements in APD 85
12. PART III. GOVERNANCE BY DISRUPTION
13. Chapter 7. Whose President? Donald Trump and the Reagan Regime 101
14. Chapter 8. The Policy State and the Post- truth Presidency 114
15. Chapter 9. Finding Stability and Sustainability in the Trump Era: Medicare and the Affordable Care Act in Historical Perspective 130
16. Chapter 10. State- Building as Parlor Trick: Trump, the Executive Branch, and the Politics of Deconstruction 151
17. PART IV. REFLECTIONS
18. Chapter 11. Donald Trump and the End of American Politics 167
19. Chapter 12. Trumpism and the Future of American Political Development 178
20. Notes 195
21. Contributors 243
22. Index 247