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The Necro-President = Trump, MAGA, and the Decline of the American Republic

This Brief develops the necro-president as a figure through which the collapse of American political life becomes visible. In our present moment of political upheaval, the necro-president reflects how death, not law or the people, has come to shape the meaning of the presidency.

The office, once imagined as a source of vitality and democratic promise, now signals exhaustion, spectacle, and symbolic decay. Focusing on the 2024 election, The Necro-President shows how Joe Biden and Donald Trump came to represent two sides of a collapsing republic. Biden, cast as a spectral figure, became a symbol of entropy and decline. Trump, by contrast, positioned himself as a resurrectionist, a messianic leader who could overcome decay and save the republic. What followed was not the return of life to the presidency but the normalization of death as a mode of rule.

This critical philosophical intervention moves beyond debates about democratic erosion and constitutional crisis. It asks what happens when political life continues even after the symbols that once gave it meaning have gone hollow.

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: Springer Chams., 2025

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XIII, 62 hlm; ill., lamp.,

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English

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9783031947292

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computer

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online resource

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Political Science
Comparative Politics
Political History
Political Theory
Electoral Politics

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This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Theorizes the figure of the necro-president through the rise of Trump and the cultural logic of MAGA Examines how Trump casts himself as a resurrectionist leader, claiming to redeem a republic in decay Offers a philosophical account of the symbolic collapse of the American presidency Situates the American republic within a longer tradition of symbolic decay and political collapse

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Dean Caivano

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94729-2

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