AnthropoTrumpism: Trump and the politics of environmental disruption

Monty Hempel ()
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Monty Hempel: University of Redlands

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2018, vol. 8, issue 2, No 7, 183-188

Abstract: Abstract The initial year of the Trump presidency has produced wrenching disruption in federal environmental policy, practice, and management. This is largely a result of a culture war that has been raging in much of the USA for several decades. Although Trump’s election was not a referendum on environmental protection, it did reflect deep divisions in public attitudes toward federal regulation and elite, science-driven models of policy making. Trump’s reliance on strategic distraction, normalization of bad behavior, and “alternative facts” has kept his base energized, but it has also produced a growing crisis of legitimacy that calls into question the future of both democracy and sustainability.

Keywords: Environmental policy; President Donald Trump; Agenda setting; Anti-regulatory strategy; Culture war; Legitimation crisis; EPA; Paris Climate Agreement; Pebble Mine; Reagan legacy; Deliberative democracy; Alternative facts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s13412-018-0491-8

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