The Collapse of an American Sustained Cultural Identity The American Civil Religion and the Spectre of Trumpism

Abstract

This text stresses the diabolic spectreof Trumpism, a set of mechanisms for autocracy and authoritarianism, to redefine the United States while Trump’s supporters perceive America as a nation and an idea that have forgotten and betrayed them. Consequently, they deny the “religious” and mythical founding principles of the nation defending a “new religion”. Trump, the high priest of this “newreligion”, and Trumpism represent a crisis of faith around the so-called American civil religion and announce the possible final collapse of an imagined American sustained cultural identity