ABSTRACT
In this chapter, cultural critic Henry A. Giroux explores the dehumanization, violence, and racism that characterize a government under the leadership of United States President, Donald Trump. Giroux describes the rise of “neoliberal fascism” threatening the end of democracy in the public imagination in the U.S. Giroux writes of the present as a time of tyranny in which domestic terrorism causes people to lose agency and identity, decrying the role education has played in perpetuating a marketized, consumerist social order. He urges that “it is both a political and pedagogical issue to imagine a future in which human needs take precedent over market considerations,” and that the onus is on all educators and artists to act as radical, critical, activist pedagogues.
