ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses a fundamental shift within US social organisation and governmental practice in the Trump era. Hill examines the presumption that civil society can reliably exclude popular violence. He argues further that the state’s response to such movements in the form of domestic military intervention means ‘civilian’ life is no longer foundational to liberal democracy. Paradoxically, the democratic principles of government are rendered inoperable in the name of governability itself. The chapter further seeks to explain the relationship between the weaponisation of US social relations under President Trump in the context of post-whiteness. While whiteness loses numerical superiority, it gains political significance as liberalism mutates from a welfare to a warfare state. Hill argues that white population decline has triggered new forms civil war in disguise of securing civility, or in the slogan of the Trump campaign, of ‘Making America Great Again’.
