The Forgotten Man and White Populist Resentment: Power, Politics, and Narrative Dominance in the Trump Era

American political history has a rhythm and a progression.Part of that progression is White populist anger and resentment.The Forgotten Man and White Populist Resentment: Power, Politics, and Narrative Dominance in the Trump Era traces how this White populism rose to dominate the Republican Party primary base, how the populist campaigns of Pat Buchanan and Newt Gingrich paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump, and how he maintains narrative dominance over both parties and American political discourse. Elites in Britain were the focus of resentment in the Revolutionary Era, as they presumed to tell the colonists that they were subject to taxes and domination of Great Britain.By the 1850s, populist resentment was transferred to the national government because it told the freedom-loving, individual liberty-defending, slave-owning South that slavery was evil and would not be allowed to spread into the west.Both before and after suffering defeat, the poor White Southern male was told tha