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Selected Works of Adam Hodges
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Trump First and the Presentation of the Political Self
Anthropology News (2018)
  • Adam Hodges, Carnegie Mellon University
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Abstract
Politicians typically strive to project a stable political persona free of self-contradictions and inconsistencies. President Trump, on the other hand, is the master of self-contradictions and inconsistencies. But underlying this apparently incoherent political self is a different type of coherence—one that maintains an egotistical self-image rather than stable political positions.
Keywords
  • political self,
  • Donald Trump,
  • political discourse,
  • existential coherence,
  • narcissism,
  • self-serving bias,
  • egocentric coherence
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Publication Date
March 8, 2018
DOI
10.1111/AN.789
Publisher Statement
Copyright 2018 American Anthropological Association
Citation Information
Adam Hodges. "Trump First and the Presentation of the Political Self" Anthropology News Vol. 59 Iss. 2 (2018) p. e145 - e148
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/adamhodges/85/