Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying (New Edition): Table of Contents
Table of Contents
New Edition
PREFACE XIII
The Organization and Flow of Chapters and Topics XIV
INTRODUCTION
Our Current Predicament 1
Public Bullying as Political Violence 4
The Purpose of This New Edition 8
Historical Roots 10
From Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0 11
International Crises and Their Domestic Fallout 15
The Value of This Book 18
CHAPTER ONE Political Violence, or They Meant What They Said 21
Traumatic Lessons: CEO Trump's Hostile Takeover 21
Looking Back: They Meant It 28
9/11, the Iraq Invasion, and the War on Terror 30
The Rise of Attack Ads in Political Campaigns 32
New York City as Laboratory of Intimidation and Fear 34
CHAPTER TWO Intimidation and Bullying in the Wider Culture: The Workplace and the Media 39
Harsh Climate, or, the Way We Live Now 39
Ground Zero: Financial and Managerial Revolution in the Workplace 41
The Bullying Boss 45
Short-Term Greed, Long-Term Insecurity 47
The Media Sphere 49
Reality TV and Social Media 52
New Media, Far-Right Extremism, and Donald Trump 54
CHAPTER THREE Enter Trump: The Tyrannical CEO and White Entrepreneur as Capitalist Folk Hero 59
The Question 59
Trump the Entrepreneur 60
Trump's Negative Identity Politics: From Cold War Smearing to Entrepreneurial Bullying 63
The Defiant White Man: The Method is the Message 69
Government as Family Business 73
The Political Synergy of Trump's Multiple Identities: Then and Now 75
After Trump: Entrepreneurialism and Authoritarian Political Rule 77
CHAPTER FOUR Political Thuggery and Party Identities 81
A Restructured Democratic Party and Its Cautious Strategies 81
The Advent of Obama and the Rise of the Tea Party 85
2010: Demobilizing Democrats 87
Party Loyalty, Social Identity, and Cultures of Governing 90
Bullying Their Own: Bernie Sanders and Other Insurgent Candidates 98
The Case of Elizabeth Warren 101
The Destructive Legacy of the Cold War Era 103
Donald Trump's Identity and Aggression: He Meant What He Said 105
CHAPTER FIVE Playing for Keeps: The 2016 Elections 109
The Abusive Entrepreneur Enters Politics 109
Hillary Clinton's Unflinching Campaign 111
CHAPTER SIX Learning from the Dynamics of Political Intimidation and Bullying: A Practical Guide 119
Preemptive Strike: Creating Public Facts on the Ground 119
The Power of Public Bullying and Intimidation 127
The Politics of Destruction 132
Snares and Traps: Denial 135
Snares and Traps: Blind Revenge 137
Snares and Traps: Nostalgia for the Theater of Moral Shaming 139
Snares and Traps: Media Frenzies 141
CHAPTER SEVEN Confronting Physical Political Violence and Armed Domestic Terrorism 145
Civilian Physical and Armed Violence 147
Call It by Any Other Name: The Legal Void 149
Relying on the First Amendment 152
Psychologizing Armed Political Violence and Domestic Terrorism 160
State Armed Violence 162
CONCLUSION On Our Own 169
Old Wine, New Bottles 169
The Israel-Hamas War and Genocide and Its Domestic Fallout 170
Joe Biden and the 2024 Election: Dysfunctional Loyalty 173
Trump 2.0 and Mobilizing Right-wing Support 176
Democratic Resistance 178
A New Political Script 181
The Long View 181
The Short View: The Time Is Now 184
A POLITICAL GLOSSARY FOR THE TRUMP ERA AND BEYOND 191
NOTES 197
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 245
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 249