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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