Trumping

The New Yorker: Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety - How Lauren Berlant’s cultural criticism predicted the Trumping of politics. By Hua Hsu

from 2012 - "Many of you would say that Donald Trump was excluded from the Republican convention, has no traction as a political candidate, and is generally viewed as a clown whose spewing occasionally hits in the vicinity of an opinion that a reasonable person could defend. But I am here to tell you that he actually won the Republican nomination and is dominating the airwaves during this election season. He is not doing this with “dark money” or Koch-like influence peddling. He has done this the way the fabled butterfly does it, as its wing-flapping sets off revolutions."