This edited collection endeavors to use critical theory to assess the current political and cultural moment in the United States. The collection sets out to use unexplored critical approaches that largely fall under the umbrella of the humanities to understand the rise of the alt-right and consequently the election of Donald Trump. While neoliberal mainstream culture has expressed shock at the seemingly expeditious rise of the alt-right movement and the outcome of the 2016 election, a rich tradition of theory may not only explain this “phenomenon,” but may also chart an alternative understanding of the movement, revealing the persistence of right-wing populism through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.weiterlesen