Trump and Political Philosophy: Leadership, Statesmanship, and Tyranny

1. Leadership, Statesmanship and Tyranny: The Character and Rhetoric of Trump.- 2. Truth, Trump, Tyranny: Plato and the Sophists in an Era of "Alternative Facts".- 3. Portraits of Ignobility: The Political Thought of Xenophon, and Donald Trump.- 4. Demagogy and the Decline of Middle-Class Republicanism: Aristotle on the Trump Phenomenon.- 5. Democracy, Demagogues, and Political Wisdom: Understanding Trump in the Wake of Thucydides' History.- 6. The Strongman, the Small Man, and the Gentleman: Confucius and Donald Trump.- 7. Trump, Alfarabi, and the Open Society.- 8. Machiavellian Politics, Modern Management and the Rise of Donald Trump.- 9. Donald Trump: Shakespeare's Lord of Misrule.- 10. Knave, Patriot, or Factionist: Three Rousseauian Hypotheses About the Election of President Trump.- 11. Trump and the Federalist on National Greatness in a Commercial Republic.- 12. American Constitutionalism from Hamilton to Lincoln to Trump.- 13. Lincoln, Moral Conflict, and Herrenvolk Democracy in the Age of Trump.- 14. The Great Emancipators Oppose the "Slave Power": The Lincolnian-and Aristotelian-Dimensions of Trump's Rhetoric.- 15. Charisma, Value and Political Vocation: Max Weber on the 2016 US Election.- 16. The Common Sense of Donald J. Trump: A Gramscian Reading of Twenty-First Century Populist Rhetoric.- 17. "I Alone Can Solve": Carl Schmitt on Sovereignty and Nationhood under Trump.