Home Title Index Topic Index Sources Directory News Releases Sources Calendar

The Pride Paradox

Irmscher, Christoph
http://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/02/the-pride-paradox/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  02/12/2024
Year Published:  2024  
Resource Type:  Article

The last election confirmed what many pundits had already feared but wouldn't admit even to themselves—that Trumpism isn't a fringe phenomenon but drifts squarely in the often toxic American mainstream. Perhaps one of the most sobering things about the most recent election was how quietly it unfolded—with none of the violence widely expected, without riots or mass protests. Afterwards it seemed as if even some of the winners were in a state of shock over what had actually happened—that a convicted felon more interested in victory for victory's sake and in avenging himself on his foes than concrete policy proposals had been given a second chance to be President.

Abstract: 
-

Excerpt:

Drawing on concepts familiar from political science, to which she adds a new psychosocial dimension, Hochschild demonstrates that Pikeville—and other communities like it—lingers in the grip of a "pride paradox": "low opportunity coupled with the belief that the blame is on you if you fail" (p. 77). In Hochschild’s economy of pride, self-blame, somewhat contradictorily, goes hand in hand with righteous anger directed at others, mostly the affluent folks living in the cities, from Lexington, Kentucky to Washington, DC, who, undeservedly, seem to have it better than you.
Sources-journalists use the sources website to find you


AlterLinks
c/o Sources


© 2026.