Trump 2.0
The extreme distance between Trump’s attempted centrism in 2000 and his championing of the alt-right in 2016 is a product of a rapid proliferation of publics in new media
A.J. Bauer
is a writer and former journalist based in New York, whose political writing has appeared in the Texas Observer, Social Text: Periscope, and the Guardian. He is currently a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow and PhD candidate in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at NYU, where he is finishing a dissertation on the long history of conservative media activism in the U.S.