Meaning of Trumpophobia | Babel Free

Definitions

A fear or hatred of Donald Trump.

US, informal, uncountable

Examples

“At home, I see⟳ intolerance, various forms of prejudice, demonisation and the exploitation of fear – the last⟳ like⟳ shooting at the side of a barn, in the American context – at work⟳ in our Trumpophobia. This is the soft despotism of the American neoliberal.”

“Heer, who writes a bi-weekly column with headings such as “Steve Bannon is Turning Trump into an Ethno-Nationalist Ideologue” and “Donald Trump is the Bizarro Noam Chomsky”, appears to have⟳ contracted a particularly virulent strain⟳ of Trumpophobia”

“Comedian Bill Maher — currently in the midst of his 15th season on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" — has certainly been the beneficiary of increased viewership due to Trumpophobia.”

“Alan Dershowitz, a Clinton voter in the last⟳ election, warned that the effort to escalate perfervid Trumpophobia from criminalization of policy differences (as well as sour grapes over the lost election) to “psychiatrization” was even more sinister and anti-democratic.”

“We may disapprove of Donald Trump's crude behaviors and documented low respect⟳ for truth[3]. However, these may have⟳ created a kind of Trumpophobia that leads otherwise thoughtful people to exaggerate earlier positive influences of US foreign policy”

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