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time as farce.” Herein lies the true novelty – Mr. Trump is what happens when a particular personage embodies “fact,” “tragedy,” and “farce” all at once. He is the “tragedy” of the paranoia and uncertainty, economic anxiety, and disempowerment that defines America’s mass public today, their public institutions and economic structures having failed them. He is the “farce” of a country awash in the hollow platitudes offered by political elites, celebrities and entertainers, media personalities, and business people, a class of people who steadfastly and condescendingly polarize politics, feign unity, and re-direct blame toward whatever bogeyman is on offer. He is the “fact,” the living embodiment, of the capitalist Id, of a (neo-)liberal social order in which the corporate rich – by some wicked combination of unknowing naivety and unthinking instrumental rationality – worsen, coerce, and end multitudes of human lives. A “fact” that is a matter of course given economic structures that requires persons be treated as things, mere commodity-values within an equation for calculating how to best pursue the further accumulation of capital. Populism The study of American political culture usually begins with democracy (and perhaps republicanism), but to understand Trumpism as an ideology, we must begin with populist politics and liberalism. More consideration must be given to “[democracy’s] limits, silences, and brutalities” and the “long history of discontent voiced and acted upon by members of the white majority itself.” Beginning with the Constitution itself (and the Founders fear of lower classes considered unfit to rule) and moving through the historical struggles of women, minority groups, and the impoverished, democracy has always been subject to severe restrictions. This limited democracy, which is integral to liberalism’s successes and failures, has served consistently to maintain the large “middling class” so vital to stabilizing society within ‘classical’ and ‘modern’ political thought. However, in periods of economic crises and social change, liberalism’s instrumental, carrot and stick, governance frequently fails to “deliver the goods.” This large middle