Trumpophobia
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- (US, politics, informal) Fear of Donald Trump
- 2016, Stan Grant, Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming[1]:
- At home, I see intolerance, various forms of prejudice, demonisation and the exploitation of fear – the last like shooting at the side of a barn, in the American context – at work in our Trumpophobia. This is the soft despotism of the American neoliberal.
- 2017 April, D McCann, “The new totalitarians: Fresh thoughts on James Burnham”, in Quadrant:
- Heer, who writes a bi-weekly column with headings such as “Steve Bannon is Turning Trump into an Ethno-Nationalist Ideologue” and “Donald Trump is the Bizarro Noam Chomsky”, appears to have contracted a particularly virulent strain of Trumpophobia
- 2017 May 7, Zach Freeman, “Maher needed to put away his notebook and be present at Chicago Theater”, in Chicago Tribune:
- Comedian Bill Maher — currently in the midst of his 15th season on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" — has certainly been the beneficiary of increased viewership due to Trumpophobia.
- 2018 January 10, Conrad Black, “Michael Wolff and the Death Rattle of Trumpophobia”, in National Review:
- Alan Dershowitz, a Clinton voter in the last election, warned that the effort to escalate perfervid Trumpophobia from criminalization of policy differences (as well as sour grapes over the lost election) to “psychiatrization” was even more sinister and anti-democratic.
- 2018, FT Manheim, “Is Donald Trump's Influence on World Affairs Really Worse than Earlier American Policies?”, in papers.ssrn.com:
- We may disapprove of Donald Trump's crude behaviors and documented low respect for truth[3]. However, these may have created a kind of Trumpophobia that leads otherwise thoughtful people to exaggerate earlier positive influences of US foreign policy