Book contents
- Whitelash
- Whitelash
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Long Night of Déjà Vu
- 1 Electing Trump and Breaching Norms
- 2 The Exoneration of White Voters
- 3 White Voters and the Law of Alternative Facts
- 4 The Sirens of White Nationalism
- 5 Law as Pretext
- 6 Voting While White
- 7 Holding Candidates and Parties Accountable
- 8 We the People: Fashioning a Legal Remedy for Voter Whitelash
- Conclusion The Globalization of Whitelash
- Notes
- Index
1 - Electing Trump and Breaching Norms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2020
- Whitelash
- Whitelash
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Long Night of Déjà Vu
- 1 Electing Trump and Breaching Norms
- 2 The Exoneration of White Voters
- 3 White Voters and the Law of Alternative Facts
- 4 The Sirens of White Nationalism
- 5 Law as Pretext
- 6 Voting While White
- 7 Holding Candidates and Parties Accountable
- 8 We the People: Fashioning a Legal Remedy for Voter Whitelash
- Conclusion The Globalization of Whitelash
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Politicians often extoll the common sense of running government like a business. Indeed, business acumen was arguably the principal qualification of then-candidate Donald Trump to become president of the United States. Likening government to a business, however, invites another analogy: voters as employers. Employers are constrained by practical and legal considerations in choosing employees. For example, it’s almost impossible to imagine a board of directors selecting Donald Trump as its CEO after the revelation of the Access Hollywood tape on which he boasted of grabbing women by their genitalia without their consent. The reputational and legal exposure for the business would be too great. Yet American voters elected Trump as the nation’s CEO.
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- WhitelashUnmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box, pp. 7 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020