wiley | Brexit and Donald Trump's election victory are symptoms of a new
nationalist populism in western Europe and the United States. This
political and ideological movement has arisen in reaction to
reconfigurations of power, wealth, and identity that are endemic to
global neoliberalism. In the United States, however, the media's
dominant “blue-collar narrative” about Trump's victory simplifies the
relationship between neoliberalism and nationalist populism by ignoring
the role of the petty bourgeoisie and the wealthy in Trump's coalition.
An anthropology of Trump requires ethnographies of communities largely
shunned by anthropologists as well as reflexivity about the unintended
role of universities in producing support for Trump.
