Trump

The first few months of Donald Trump's return to the presidency have been dizzying and unsettling. From the attacks on public servants, universities, and students to the almost daily announcement of new tariffs and the slashing of a great many Federal programmes, it is difficult to just keep up with the latest news let alone to make sense of it and understand the broader context and implications of what is happening. Although most focus on the Trump regime's increasingly authoritarian tactics and his xenophobia and imperial rhetoric, usually comparing it to past anti-democratic and fascist moments, what is often ignored is how deeper transformations of capitalism and our everyday lives may serve as the material conditions that made Trump's political tenor and success