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Demagogue for President : The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump /

"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" o...

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Autor principal: Mercieca, Jennifer R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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)