ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I offer some reflections on aspects of the post-Trump election paradigm shift and on the challenges it poses for Americanists, with a particular interest in what it means for those of us who are transnational in perspective, by inclination or geography or both. The current reconfiguring of America in the European imagination is indicative of the epistemological and interpretive challenges presented to Americanists by the ascent of Trump and his presidency’s disruption and distortions of the grounds and object of our analysis. With the Trump presidency, the US has gone through the looking glass into a new symbolic order.
