U.S. Democracy in Danger

Part 1: Introduction - the American Democracy.- Chapter 1. Donald Trump, Authoritarian Populism, and the Struggle to Save Democracy.- Chapter 2. American Presidency, Interpreting Donald Trump and His Uneasy 'lies'.- Part 2: Unmasking the Presidency.- Chapter 3. The Tenets of Trumpism and the Assault on American and Global Democracy.- Chapter 4. Trump, and Other Nationalist and Populist Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery.- Chapter 5. The Agitator Supplies What the Base Demands: Trumpism Before and After Trump.- Chapter 6. The Post-election Republican Effort to Overturn the 2020 Election Results: Background and Context.- Chapter 7. Insurrection, Ressentiment and a Failed Coup: the Capitol Attack and Its Aftermath.- Part 3: Trump's Diplomatic Learning Curve and the American Evangelicals.- Chapter 8. From "Nipple" to "Nambia" and Everything in-between: Donald Trump's Mental Maps and the Unraveling of the Liberal World (Dis)order.- Chapter 9. Trump and the Performance of "the Other",and Stigmatization.- Chapter 10. Why Evangelical Christian Women Voted for Trump: a Crisis of Conscience and Moral Integrity - the Cognitive Dissonance.- Part 4: How Media Coverage, Rhetoric and the "Fringe" Created the President.- Chapter 11. Trump's Misogyny Widens Cultural Cracks in U.S. Democracy.- Chapter 12. Trump's Rhetorical Way to Presidency.- Chapter 13. How Donald Trump Used Wittgenstein's 'language Games' as a Communicative Strategy for Connecting 'the Leader' and 'his People'.- Part 5: 'a President of the People or a President of His People'?.- Chapter 14. A Legacy of Harm: Violence Against Women and the Trump Administration.- Chapter 15. Lessons Learned of Black Lives Matter in the Age of Trump.- Part 6: Democracy, and the Surge of Populist Nationalism.- Chapter 16. Messianic and Autocratic Populisms' Waves in the Recent History of the Americas: "Global Trumpism", Continuities, Twists and Rupture.- Chapter 17. Donald J. Trump in the Whirlwind of Populism and Globalization.-

Adebowale Akande is one of the world's best-known scholars of cross-cultural studies. As a researcher on SCOPUS, he has been cited numerous times with an H-index of 132/23. With 36,025+ Google Scholar citations, placing Prof. Akande, among the top two percent of research scientists worldwide. Prolific author/editor of many global books in assorted fields. Co-recipient of the 2005 SIOP's M. Scott Myers Award; 2007 and 2009 Ursula Gielen Global Book Award, the GW. Allport Prize (2005). Akande's major research interests mainly focus on relationships among transnational populism, globalization, human rights, identity politics, social justice, self-esteem, learning, power, political influence, and prejudice. He is also known as a popularizer of global cross-cultural research, based on the recognition of the socio-historical, political, sociological and cultural forces acting on the communities and societies of focal individuals. He currently serves asan international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and a guest professor to a number of Canadian and American Universities.