Trump’s crusade against PC played a key role in his political rhetoric and resonated well among his supporters, yet his notion of PC differed greatly in meaning from earlier uses of the term and was used to denounce a much wider range of socio-political behaviors. Based on a systematic analysis of Trump’s use of this notion, I identified five main normative propositions organizing Trump’s anti-PC rhetoric. Viewed together, these propositions add up to a rehabilitation of White working-class culture but also outline an emerging late-modern version of the authenticity ethic, whose power extends far beyond the working class. This ethic (as manifested in Trump’s anti-PC rhetoric) transforms the role of morality and the sacred in political drama and in symbolic struggles over social worth. Rather than presenting his commitment to moral values, ideals, and allegedly-universal rules, Trump used anti-PC rhetoric to expose and criticize the symbolic self-interests of others who speak on behalf of these values, rules, and ideals to claim superiority (and thus ironically mimicked the sociological critique of symbolic violence to legitimize bigotry). Yet, the sacred is not completely banished from political drama: authenticity as a principle of worth guiding moral evaluation and argumentation is revealed as a sacred in denial. The case of Trump’s anti-PC rhetoric thus allows theorizing the implications of the authenticity ethic for the dynamics of social struggles over recognized worth and for the role of ideals in the presentation of self in politics and beyond.

特朗普对个人电脑的讨伐在他的政治言论中发挥了关键作用，并在他的支持者中引起了良好的共鸣，但他对个人电脑的概念在含义上与该术语的早期用法有很大不同，并被用来谴责更广泛的社会政治行为。基于对特朗普对这一概念的使用的系统分析，我确定了组织特朗普反PC言论的五个主要规范命题。综合来看，这些主张不仅促进了白人工人阶级文化的复兴，而且还概述了一种新兴的后现代版本的真实性伦理，其力量远远超出了工人阶级的范围。这种伦理（正如特朗普的反PC言论所体现的那样）改变了道德和神圣在政治戏剧和社会价值象征性斗争中的作用。特朗普没有表达他对道德价值观、理想和所谓的普遍规则的承诺，而是使用反个人电脑言论来揭露和批评那些代表这些价值观、规则和理想以声称优越的其他人的象征性自身利益。从而讽刺地模仿了对象征性暴力的社会学批判，以使偏执合法化）。然而，神圣性并没有完全从政治戏剧中消失：真实性作为指导道德评价和论证的价值原则，在否认中被揭示为神圣性。因此，特朗普的反PC言论的案例可以理论化真实性伦理对围绕公认价值的社会斗争动态以及理想在政治及其他领域自我呈现中的作用的影响。