Making America Great Again: How the Trump Campaign Targeted a "Legitimate" Enemy to Win the Presidency

• In Event: Campaigns and Populism

Brief Overview

This paper tests the hypothesis that Donald Trump won in 2016 because he waged a national-populist campaign that targeted immigrants as “legitimate” enemies of the American people who symbolized their discontents.

Authors

• Karen Umansky, Tel Aviv University

• Joel A. Lieske, Cleveland State University