Peter Kivisto. The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016. Emerald Publishing, 2017. It is a truism of recent political discourse that the United States has become a more polarized nation, with apparently little overlap between the values espoused by each side. Partisan sniping has been amplified by social media, and the … Continue reading The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon