Donald Trump: The Creation of an American Monster

Donald Trump did not simply happen to America.
America happened through Trump.
In this sharp and unsettling work of political psychology, Lucian Seraphis examines how Donald Trump became more than a candidate, more than a president, and more than a partisan figure. He became the American monster: a screen onto which millions projected fear, rage, hope, resentment, humiliation, loyalty, disgust, rebellion, and dread.
This book does not ask the reader to worship Trump, excuse him, condemn him, or join a side before being allowed to think. Instead, it asks the harder question: why did America need Trump to become a monster?
Through media spectacle, institutional distrust, class contempt, lawfare, mass psychology, political rage, elite failure, public disorder, and the collapse of shared meaning, Donald Trump: The Creation of an American Monster argues that Trump did not create America’s fracture. He revealed it.
The monster does not absolve Trump.
It implicates the country.