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This Brief develops the necro-president as a figure through which the collapse of American political life becomes visible. In our present moment of political upheaval, the necro-president reflects how death, not law or the people, has come to shape the meaning of the presidency. The office, once imagined as a source of vitality and democratic promise, now signals exhaustion, spectacle, and symbolic decay. Focusing on the 2024 election, The Necro-President shows how Joe Biden and Donald Trump came to represent two sides of a collapsing republic. Biden, cast as a spectral figure, became a symbol of entropy and decline. Trump, by contrast, positioned himself as a resurrectionist, a messianic leader who could overcome decay and save the republic. What followed was not the return of life to the presidency but the normalization of death as a mode of rule. This critical philosophical intervention moves beyond debates about democratic erosion and constitutional crisis. It asks what happens when political life continues even after the symbols that once gave it meaning have gone hollow. This book is open access.
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Keywords
- constitutional rot
- democratic erosion
- Donald Trump
- Far-right politics
- governance collapse
- institutional corruption
- institutional decay
- Joe Biden
- MAGA rhetoric
- necro-president
- republican decline
- Republican theory
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHF Elections and referenda / suffrage
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics
- Trumpism
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-94729-2Editions