The
election season has brought endless surprises and there seems no end
in sight. Yet despite the discovery of new troves of email perhaps
the biggest surprise still remains the rise of Donald Trump. Even if
he loses, its worth asking how Trump got as far as he did. One
overlooked answer lies in the emotional culture that he resurrecteda
culture based on shame and honor, which flourished in the nineteenth
century, receded to the margins of public life in the twentieth, but
which is having an unlikely resurgence this year. And though few
today would call Trump honorable, his emotional style clearly
resonates with older notions of honor which still can be found in the
South, some rura…
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