The Cult of the Victim-Veteran: MAGA Fantasies in Lost-war America

by Jerry Lembcke

The Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan's 1984 proclamation of a new "Morning in America" encoded the war as the moment of the nation's fall from grace; it was the meme plagiarized by Donald Trump for his "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) slogan.

The national funk tapped for right- wing revanchism was psychologized when George H.W...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032490268
• ISBN13: 9781032490267
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"