Dan P. McAdams, The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump. A Psychological Reckoning

Abstract

On 21 November 2022, to nobody’s surprise, Donald J. Trump announced he would seek to become the Republican candidate for the 2024 US Presidential elections – and, both among those who have officially announced to be doing the same, as well as those who are likely to do so, his chances of securing the nomination are significant. The current legal investigations have done nothing to change that. Given that he is then expected to run against incumbent Democratic president Joe Biden, whose popularity has been diminished over the past few years, Trump stands a real chance to be elected president of the United States of America a second time. Thus, Dan P. McAdams’s The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump, written and published in the context of the 2020 presidential elections as an attempt to offer, as the book’s subtitle phrases it, ‘a psychological reckoning’ with the highly controversial 45th US president, remains highly relevant.

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