The Truth Usurper
This essay relates the rise of Donald Trump to the displacement of the Industrial Age by the Information Age, and explores how Trump’s anti knowledge posture is seen as empowering by those who are left behind in the new world of IT billionaires, globalisation and neo-liberalism. Trump’s attacks on progressivism in general, and political correctness in particular, is sharpened by his attacks on truth itself, devaluing a commodity held dear by the college educated elites, but seen as dispensable by the Trump base of non suburban whites. Whilst the preponderance of media focus is dedicated to the activities and intrigues surrounding President Donald Trump, the question remains: how did Trump muster the electoral college votes to win the presidency? An analysis of the forces that brought Trump to power would seem to be a far larger story than Trump himself, particularly when one considers that, without an understanding of the electoral landscape that delivered the presidency to Trump, o...