Index

Trump and the Deeper Crisis

ISBN: 978-1-80455-513-2, eISBN: 978-1-80455-512-5

ISSN: 0198-8719

Publication date: 12 December 2022

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(2022), "Index", Young, K.A., Schwartz, M. and Lachmann, R. (Ed.) Trump and the Deeper Crisis (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 39), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 203-207. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-871920220000039011

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INDEX

Ableism
, 148–149

Accommodators
, 68

Affordable Care Act (ACA)
, 108–109

assault on
, 108–109

regulation
, 108

signature flaws
, 117–118

African Americans
, 57

Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC program)
, 113–114

“All-of-the-above” energy strategy
, 139

Ambassadors
, 68

“America First” rhetoric
, 10–11

American Blindspot
, 69

American carnage
, 180

American Dream
, 161–162

American social policy
, 113

Americans for Financial Reform (AFR)
, 19

Amnesty to enforcement
, 92–94

Anglo-Saxon Protestants
, 69

Anti-fascists (antifa)
, 50

Anti-Muslim sentiment
, 69

“Anti-white” doctrine
, 10, 53

Antiracist movement
, 58–59

Austerity
, 148–149

Auto industry
, 37

Banks
, 145–146

Biden, Joseph
, 13, 17, 73, 160, 186, 193, 196

administration
, 192

election
, 187

immigration policy
, 15–16

possibilities for progressive reform
, 22–24

Bipartisan consistency
, 91–92, 97, 99, 130–131

Birthers
, 69–70

allegation
, 49–50

Black “crime”
, 51

Black codes
, 56

Black Lives Matter (BLM)
, 50

Black Panthers
, 33, 55

Black people
, 32, 59, 61

Bloomberg News
, 18, 136

Bonapartism
, 59–60

Border militarization
, 85–86

Border Patrol forces (BORTAC)
, 95–96

Bretton Woods agreement (1944)
, 181

Brown, Wendy
, 35–36

“Build Back Better” legislation
, 140

Bush administration
, 42

Business confidence
, 16

Business Roundtable
, 37–38

California v. Texas
, 108, 118

Capitalism
, 59

depends on borders, militarization, and repression
, 94–95

Capitalists
, 22–24, 142–143

CARES Act
, 114–117

Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA)
, 97–98

Central American refugees, Democrats and containment of
, 95–97

Central American Regional Security Initiative
, 98–99

Children’s Health program (CHIP program)
, 117

China
, 190–193

Christian Latinx immigrants
, 70

Christian nationalism
, 66–68, 70

White evangelicals and
, 67–70

CIA intervention
, 41

Clean Power Plan
, 128–129

Climate destruction
, 17

Climate emergency
, 1–2, 23–24, 134

Climate movement
, 132

balance of forces within ruling class
, 142–146

destruction and resistance under Democratic rule
, 138–142

destruction and resistance under Republican rule
, 133–138

strategy
, 135–136

Collaborative Multi-racial Post-Election Survey (2016) (CMPS)
, 70–71

Congressional Democrats
, 90

Congressional Republicans
, 8

Corporate compromise
, 112–113

Corporate elites
, 34–35, 39

COVID-19

pandemic
, 107

recession
, 112, 117

vaccine refusal
, 75–76

Criminal Justice Reform
, 51–52

Crisis of democracy
, 3

Critical Race Theory (CRT)
, 4, 10, 52–53, 55, 76

bans
, 76–77

vaccine refusal and battle over
, 73–77

Culture wars
, 71–72

Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)
, 136, 139

Decommodification
, 110

Democratic Party
, 39, 91–92

Democratic political elites
, 34–36

Democratic rule, destruction and resistance under
, 138–142

Democrats
, 21, 39, 84, 89–90, 92

and containment of Central American refugees
, 95–97

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
, 60, 86

Disaster capitalism
, 40

Dispute settlement mechanism
, 189

Disruption
, 146–147

Diversionary wars
, 173

Divided citizenship
, 113

Dominican Republic with the Central American Free-Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)
, 97–98

East Coast elites
, 70

Election process
, 74

Electoral calculations
, 16

Electric vehicles (EV)
, 142–143

Empire
, 181

“Enforcement-only” consensus
, 85–88

Environmental politics
, 39

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
, 128–129, 131–133

Evangelical Christianity
, 67–68

“Fair and humane” policies
, 84

Fair Sentencing Act (2010)
, 52

Fake news
, 9–10, 74

“False flag” actions
, 50

Fascism
, 59–60

Federal Elections Commission
, 31–32

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
, 136–137

Finance capital
, 144–145

First Step Act
, 52

Fossil fuels
, 127–129

capitalist power
, 131

extraction
, 37

producers
, 131–132

Republican dedication to fossil fuel profits
, 135

“Free market” system
, 54–55

Free-trade agreements (FTAs)
, 84, 97

Free-trade policies
, 97–99

Fuzzy math
, 11

G-2 strategy
, 190–191

Gay rights
, 71–72

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
, 181

Georgia
, 55–56

Globalization
, 20

Green New Deal (GND)
, 38, 148

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions)
, 127–128

Guatemalan-United Fruit case
, 41–42

Health care
, 107

market medicine
, 110–112

patchwork policy
, 113–115

unequal protection
, 115–117

Health firms
, 18

Health insurance
, 110

Hegemony
, 161, 179–180

US hegemonic strategy
, 180–185

HFC-23
, 131–132

Homeland Security
, 35–36

Immigration

and borders
, 35–37

policy
, 13

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
, 12, 85–86

Immigration politics

amnesty to enforcement
, 92–94

bipartisan imperial road map
, 97–99

capitalism depends on borders, militarization, and repression
, 94–95

Democrats
, 89–90, 92

Democrats and containment of Central American refugees
, 95–97

“enforcement-only” consensus
, 85–88

U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021
, 88–89

Imperialism
, 91–92, 148–149

Inequality
, 109–110

Intellectual property
, 183

Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF treaty)
, 186–187

International Monetary Fund
, 181

Interracial mass movement
, 58

Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015
, 187

Islamic terrorism
, 69

Jellybean test
, 57

Job creators
, 10

Job-based coverage
, 111–112

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
, 187

Keystone XL Pipeline
, 38

Legitimate protection
, 161–165

social and geopolitical conflict
, 171–174

Lobbying
, 23–24

Malcolm X
, 55

Marxists
, 60

Mass action
, 57

Medicaid
, 113–114, 116

Medicare
, 113–114, 116

Migrants
, 36–37

Militarism
, 185–190

continuity in policy
, 42–43

control of natural resources
, 40–42

and imperialism
, 40–43

military contractors
, 40

Military contractors
, 40

Military leaders
, 145

“Military-Industrial Complex”
, 40

Muslim ban
, 66, 70, 85–86

National neoliberalism
, 11

Nativism
, 117

NATO

allies
, 186

military alliance
, 163

Natural resources, control of
, 40–42

Neoliberal plunder
, 164

New culture wars
, 70–73

New Deal
, 23

New START Treaty
, 191–192

“No Justice, No Peace” slogan
, 58–59

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
, 97–98, 180, 189

Oath Keepers
, 74

Obama, Barack
, 34

administration
, 42

environmental policies
, 37

healthcare reform
, 12

Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)
, 112

Occupy Wall Street movement
, 32

Open Skies Agreement
, 186–187

Operation Dixie
, 113

Opportunity Zones
, 52

“Over the horizon” strategy
, 168–169

Overton window model of policy ideas
, 33

Paris climate accord
, 38–39

Path dependence
, 143

Patriarchy
, 148–149

Performative opposition concepts
, 37

Plan Colombia
, 98–99

Plan Mérida
, 98–99

Privatization
, 184–185

Profit motive
, 111

Progressive reform

continued chaos and failure of
, 13–17

possibilities for
, 22–24

Project PAC (1776)
, 77

Proud Boys
, 74

QAnon
, 74–75

Race
, 70, 73, 111–112

Race-baiting
, 51

Racial inequality
, 58

Racial injustice
, 50–52

Racism (see also Capitalism)
, 10, 59, 117, 148–149

Radical flank effect
, 33, 37

Raw materials
, 40–41

Reagan administration
, 114

Regional militarization
, 97–99

Religion
, 70–73

Religious fundamentalism
, 22

“Remain in Mexico” policies
, 86–87

Replacement theory (see also Critical Race Theory (CRT))
, 53

Republican obstructionism in Congress
, 130–131

Republican Party
, 1–2, 39, 91–92

Republican rule, destruction and resistance under
, 133–138

Resistance campaigns
, 148

Ruling class, balance of forces within
, 142–146

Russo-Japanese War of 1904
, 173

Second Redemption
, 61

Secular stagnation
, 13

Secure Fence Act of 2006
, 36

Sentencing Project, The
, 52

Shariah law
, 72

Social movement strategy
, 13

Social policy
, 107

Social Security
, 113–114

South African War
, 173

Spanish-American War
, 173

Special and differential treatment (SDT)
, 188

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017)
, 34

Tax cuts on corporations
, 34–35

Temporary Legal Status (TLS)
, 88–89

Terrorism
, 72

Third New Deal
, 115–116

Third World elites
, 161–162

Three Percenters
, 74

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
, 188

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
, 188

Transnational capitalist class
, 40

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
, 194–195

Trump, Donald
, 1, 3, 7–8, 43, 49–50, 67, 159–160

administration policies
, 109–110

“America’s back”
, 167–171

bullying
, 160

Business Advisory Council
, 31–32

after COVID-19
, 117–119

cutting taxes on corporations
, 34–35

draconian anti-immigrant policy
, 21

effect
, 2

election
, 66

environment
, 37–39

environmental appointees
, 133–134

failed to reduce militarism or weaken capitalists
, 185–190

far-right judicial appointees
, 8

immigration and borders
, 35–37

implications
, 43

militarism and imperialism
, 40–43

policies
, 11–12, 35

politics
, 66

possibilities for progressive reform
, 22–24

presidential campaign
, 180

and racial injustice
, 50–52

regulatory policies
, 21–22

Republicanism
, 108–109

rhetoric
, 9

social agenda
, 9

unabashed racketeer
, 165–167

Trump, Fred
, 51

Trumpian politics
, 73–77

Trumpism
, 1–2, 9, 13, 50, 59–60, 84

U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 (USCA)
, 88–89

Unequal protection
, 115–117

Unions
, 148

United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA)
, 97–98, 189

Universality
, 113

US capitalists
, 20–21

US corporations
, 19

US foreign policy
, 160

US ruling class
, 20

US-Korea Free Trade Agreement
, 191

US-Mexico border
, 2

Vaccine accepters
, 76

Vaccine refusal and battle over Critical Race Theory
, 73–77

Vietnam War
, 182–184

Voting rights
, 55–58

Voting Rights Act (1965)
, 55–56

Wagner Act (1935)
, 23

Wall Street Journal
, 17–18

War
, 162

“War on Christmas”
, 66

White Evangelicals

and Christian nationalism
, 67–70

religion, race, and new culture wars
, 70–73

Trumpian politics
, 73–77

White supremacists
, 50, 56

White supremacy
, 52–55

Whiteness
, 69, 73

Willow project
, 140–141

World Bank
, 181

World Health Organization
, 7–8

Yellow Vest movement
, 148

“Zero-Tolerance” policy
, 86