The Trump administration and the Neoliberal Project.

The 2016 election of Donald Trump has been one of the most controversial in the recent political history of the United States. While many have correctly described and criticized his leadership as a president, they tend to focus these issues within the framework of the worrying and unique personality traits of the current president. This article will take a different approach, and attempts to understand Donald Trump as man of his times, in many ways a singularly precise personification of today's neoliberal inspired zeitgeist. The article will focus on four elements of the neoliberal project: "post truth", disaster capitalism, individualism, and the dumbing down of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]