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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface | xiii
1 Trump’s Family Romance and the Magic of Television | 1
2 Gaslight and the Shock Politics Two-Step | 13
3 The President’s House Is Empty: Inauguration Day | 33
4 He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey | 39
5 The Members-Only President Goes to Alabama | 46
6 An Empire unto Himself? Harvey Weinstein’s Downfall | 52
7 Race and the Revolving Door of (Un)Reality TV | 56
8 They Want Civility, Let’s Give It to Them | 62
9 Stormy Daniels’s #MeToo Moment | 70
10 The Trump Doctrine | 76
11 Jon Stewart and the Limits of Mockery | 81
12 Bullying Canada: An American Presidential Tradition | 86
13 House Renovations: For Christine Blasey Ford | 92
14 No Collision: Opting Out of Catastrophe | 98
15 Epstein, Barr, and the Virus of Civic Fatigue (with Sara Rushing) | 107
16 Mueller, They Wrote | 112
17 Unbelievable: Scenes from a Structure | 117
18 Gothic Girls: Bombshell’s Variation on a Theme | 126
19 Boxed In: Debbie Dingell vs. Donald Trump | 130
20 Mediating Masculinity: Rambo Republicanism and the Long Iran Crisis | 138
21 “13 Angry Democrats”? A Noir Reading of 12 Angry Men | 145
22 In the Streets a Serenade: Siena under Lockdown | 153
23 Isn’t It Ironic? Spitballing in a Pandemic | 157
24 Build That Wall: The Politics of Motherhood in Portland | 163
25 Impenetrable: Gaslighting the 14th Amendment | 171
26 “Hallelujah”: The People Want Their House Back | 178
27 Loose Threads | 184
Acknowledgments | 195
Notes | 199
Credits | 241
