How Hipsters Gave Us Trump

Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was powered by its embrace of the white working class. It also drew energy from its rejection of feminist conceits. While critics charged Trump with racism and misogyny, his supporters reveled in official obloquy, gleefully accepting Hillary Clinton’s epithet, “deplorables.” When he stood for a mugshot in 2023, Trump’s outlaw appeal was underlined. His initial rise and later return to office suggested that, in a society devoted to feminism and diversity, whiteness and masculinity possess a countercultural energy.