The Cult of the Victim-Veteran av Jerry (College of the Holy Cross USA) Lembcke

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<P>The Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan¿s 1984 proclamation of a new "Morning in America" encoded the war as the moment of the nation¿s fall from grace; it was the meme plagiarized by Donald Trump for his "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) slogan.</P><P></P><P>The national funk tapped for right- wing revanchism was psychologized when George H.W. Bush appropriated post- Vietnam syndrome, the diagnostic forerunner to post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to memorialize the military accomplishments in the Persian Gulf War of 1990¿1991¿we had "kicked the Vietnam Syndrome." America was a victim- nation, its trauma emblemized by PTSD-stricken veterans whose war mission had been lost on the home front, cast aside, even spat on, upon return home.</P><P></P><P>In this book we see the long historical threads woven for MAGA: the twining of traditional and modern ways of knowing that imbues war