Taboo Tuesday
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Tuesday 14 November 2023
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Trump’s marketing campaign responded by apparently taking challenge with the “ridiculous” framing. However in the identical breath, it additionally promised that Trump’s “snowflake” critics’ “total existence will probably be shattered when President Trump returns to the White Home.” (It later sought to vary it to “unhappy, depressing existence.”)
Effectively, then (emphasis mine). I like to recommend the entire piece, which does job of emphasizing the similarities within the rhetoric.
It might be tempting to dismiss the previous president’s rhetoric and plans as both jokes or the ravings of a madman who could ultimately discover himself in jail. However to borrow an overused phrase, it is necessary to take the phrases of each presidents and presidential candidates severely in addition to actually.
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the mundane reality in American politics is that a lot of what we wish to know is evident. You do not have to go looking arduous or search it out; you simply need to pay attention.
And Donald Trump is telling us loud and clear that he desires to finish American democracy as we all know it.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. His major areas of experience embrace events, elections and the institutional design of democracies. His newest e-book is co-authored A Completely different Democracy: American Authorities in a 31-Nation Perspective. He bought his Ph.D. from the College of Texas and his BA from the College of California, Irvine. He has been running a blog since 2003 (initially on the now defunct Poliblog). Comply with Steven additional Twitter