Jerry Lembcke
Broschiertes Buch

The Cult of the Victim-Veteran

MAGA Fantasies in Lost-war America

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Choice Editors' Picks for April 20242024 Choice Review Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award WinnerThe 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. Bush appropriated post- Vietnam syndrome, the diagnostic forerunne...