He analyzes Trump as a preemptive president trying to become transformative by initiating a Politics of American Restoration.
In this innovative analysis, American presidency scholar and trained psychoanalyst Stanley Renshon reaches beyond partisan narrative to offer a serious and substantive examination of Trump’s real psychology and controversial presidency.
Critics of Trump abound, as do anonymously sourced speculations about his motives, yet the real man behind this unprecedented presidency remains largely unknown. In so doing, Trump set off cataclysmic shock waves across the country and world that have not subsided and are unlikely to as long as he remains in office. He violated every rule of conventional presidential campaigns to win a race that almost no one, including at times he himself, thought he would win. The United States has never had a president quite like Donald J.
