We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto's The Trump Phenomenon.
- Authors
Sheridan, Julie
- Abstract
Like Kivisto, Coates rejects the thesis that Trump's win is merely a reaction to recent economic trends by disgruntled white working-class voters [18], viewing this rationalization of the 2016 election result as a convenient form of displacement by white commentators: "when white pundits cast the elevation of Trump as the handiwork of an inscrutable white working class, they are being too modest, declining to claim credit for their own economic class." Yet Kivisto's insistence on a straightforward alignment between the business-friendly policies of Trump and the entrepreneurial values of Trump voters - whose willingness to act as "capitalist cheerleaders" he ascribes to the disproportionate number of small business owners within their ranks (71) - creates a rather superficial portrait of the paradigmatic Trump voter as a comfortably propertied, Mercedes-driving Republican (62) whose electoral preferences are unaffected by wider economic issues (78). Alec Tyson and Shiva Maniam observe that "Trump won white voters by a margin almost identical to that of Mitt Romney, who lost the popular vote to Barack Obama in 2012.... White non-Hispanic voters preferred Trump over Clinton by 21 percentage points (58% to 37%),... [whereas] Romney won whites by 20 percentage points in 2012 (59% to [Obama's] 39%)." 18 [18] Coates acknowledges that a majority of white working-class voters supported Trump over Clinton but situates this fact in the context of Trump's "dominance" across virtually every category of white voter.
- Subjects
BUSINESS &; politics; MODERATES (Political science); TEA Party movement (U.S.); UNITED States presidential election, 2012; SOCIAL scientists; SOCIAL forces; POLITICAL attitudes
- Publication
IJAS Online, 2020, Issue 10, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2009-2377
- Publication type
Article