Recently my university has gotten caught up in a brouhaha about a supposed chalk controversy, with many Latino and Muslim students taken aback by “Trump 16” chalkings across campus and, supposedly, the university caving in to their fear and terror over political sloganeering. The dichotomy being portrayed is democracy versus “safe spaces.” There is some truth… Continue reading There is nothing safe about democracy
Month: March 2016
“Let’s Make America Great Again”: Trump’s Paranoid-Schizoid Politics
The cry that Donald Trump repeats at every rally — “Let’s Make American Great Again” — taps into a dual wager: (1) that those who imagine themselves as the dominant and quintessential “American” people need not mourn the loss of their presumed dominance at home and abroad and (2) that those who are undermining the… Continue reading “Let’s Make America Great Again”: Trump’s Paranoid-Schizoid Politics
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