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Book SynopsisWe in the U.S. have deserved someone like Donald Trump as our president for some time. Until now, by a string of luck, we had mostly centrist presidents, both Republican and Democratic, some with only a modicum of intelligence and humanity. With Donald Trump, however, we finally ran out of luck and he is our sitting president. Now, the spotlight is focused on him, but we easily forget that he is, after all, a product of his own society. Trump''s rise to power owes itself to its own social-historical circumstances: For decades now America's Consumer Society had prepared the American voters, mostly White, to find someone like Trump as their leader, by supplying them with around-the-clock distractions that made them feel good, happy and falsely powerful. Trump''s ascendancy could not be possible without our consumption of daily entertainment which makes us selfish, childish and idiotic human beings. Such minds are easily affected by anxiety, anger and vengefulness. In our daily sea
Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Chapter 1. The (White) Children’s Crusade Chapter 2. Trump’s America We Hardly Knew Chapter 3. The Day of Revelation Chapter 4. The Child with a Loaded Gun Chapter 5. Trump’s “Moral Immunity” Chapter 6. Who Created the Monster? Chapter 7. The Nature of “White Anger” Chapter 8. Trump Between Capitalism and Fascism Chapter 9. The Nation Divided, Once Again Chapter 10. The End of a Demagogue Chapter 11. The American Character Chapter 12. Trump’s Conquest of America Chapter 13. Mental Trash Chapter 14. The Lost Mind Chapter 15. Capitalism Triumphant Chapter 16. Capitalism Eternal Chapter 17. How Money Buys the Law Chapter 18. The Ten Reminders Index
