Tentative Answer: Trump's Election as a Slave Rebellion

Application 2: Was Trump’s victory like a revolution of the slaves?

I think that Trump’s election can be considered a slave revolution of sorts. Much of the rhetoric surrounding the election involved the condemnation of the many injustices working class whites have endured at the hands of the coastal elites and those complicit in the move away from fossil fuels, domestic industry jobs, and the like. Many Trump supporters are victims under a corrupt political system that does not cater to their needs. This victimization is paired with the demonization of Democrats and liberals (under the American definition). The assessment of such people as evil was seen acutely in the language surrounding Hillary Clinton. Calling her “Crooked Hillary” and “Killary” depicts Clinton as a morally reprehensible individual, and those using such epithets are good because they have not had the same political mishaps. The power disparity between the government/Democratic Party and those who turned to Trump as a solution to the current state of politics adds to the resentment of the behaviors of oligarchical elites. On the whole, I don’t think that Trump’s election is an exemplary Nietzschean slave revolution, though it does exhibit the good vs. evil dichotomy, the dominance of resentment in the societal sphere, and the power imbalance between the elites and those they victimize.