Jessica Eastland-Underwood
Early Career Researcher, University of Warwick
‘The economy’, the ideational, whiteness and re-election of Donald Trump
Jessica Eastland-Underwood - 17 December 2024‘The economy’, the ideational, whiteness and re-election of Donald Trump
As many consider the economic factors that contributed to the Trump presidency, political economy scholars should pay as much attention to the ideational as the material. While inflation provides a parsimonious explanation for the 2024 US presidential election, everyday understandings of ‘the economy’ suggest that race was as salient a factor in the final outcome.