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Explaining the Donald Trump phenomenon is a challenge that will occupy critical theorists of U.S. politics for years to come. My first take on the Trump phenomenon is that Donald Trump won the Republican primary contest and is now a contender in the U.S. Presidential Election because he is the master of media spectacle, a concept that I’ve been developing and applying to U.S. politics and media since the mid-1990s.
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Kellner, D. (2016). Introduction. In: American Nightmare. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 117. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-788-7_1
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