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Demagogue for president : the rhetorical genius of Donald Trump / Jennifer Mercieca

Mercieca, Jennifer R. [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

First edition

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020] [© 2020]

xiv, 338 Seiten

Englisch

Literaturangaben

978-1-62349-906-8 (cloth)

978-1-62349-907-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2019057727

OCoLC: 1193154646     

HF 617  | HF 612  | LB 49610  | MG 70090      Ähnliche Literatur

E913.3

973.933092

LOC-SH: Trump, Donald -- 1946- -- Language ; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century ; Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 21st century ; Personality and politics -- United States -- History -- 21st century ; Populism -- United States -- History -- 21st century ; United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-

Trump and the Distrusting Electorate -- "I don't, frankly, have time for total political correctness." (Ad Populum) -- "It's going to be like this .... I'm going to continue to attack the press." (Ad Baculum) -- "You could have a Trojan horse situation. You could--this could be the ultimate Trojan horse." (Reification) -- "Now, the poor guy. You gotta see this guy." (Ad Hominem) -- "I'm not saying that he conspired; I'm just saying that it was all over the place." (Paralipsis) -- "I am 'America First.' So, I like the expression. I'm "America First.'" (American Exceptionalism) -- Trump and the Polarized Electorate -- "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." (Ad Populum) -- "Low-Energy Jeb!" (Ad Hominem) -- "I didn't tweet; I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert. Am I gonna check every statistic? All it was is a retweet. And it wasn't from me." (Paralipsis) -- "If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment, people, maybe there is. I don't know." (Ad Baculum)

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"Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions-"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" or "a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times" (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These strategies, in conjunction with post-rhetorical public relations techniques, were meant to appeal to a segment of an already distrustful electorate"--