The Rhetoric of Donald Trump identifies and analyzes the nationalist and populist themes that dominate the rhetoric of President Trump and links those themes to a persona that has evolved from celebrity outsider to presidential strongman. In the process Robert C. Rowland explains how the nationalist populism and strongman persona in turn demands a vernacular rhetorical style unlike any previous modern president--a style that makes no attempt to lay out a case, requires constant lies, and breaks every norm for how a presidential candidate or president should talk. In stark contrast, our most effective presidents have used rhetoric to present a positive vision of what the nation could achieve. The three most effective presidential uses of rhetoric in the past century--FDR, Reagan, and Obama--all presented a coherent ideological message that, while focused on problems of the moment, was also rooted in a fundamental optimism. In contrast, Trump's message is fundamentally negative. The Rhetoric of Donald Trump explores how the nation could so abruptly shift from a president such as Barack Obama, who emphasized the audacity of hope, to one who in his inaugural address spoke about "American carnage." At its core Trump's message is well designed to appeal to voters with an authoritarian personality structure, especially in the white working-class, who feel threatened by the pace of societal change, especially demographic change. Rowland's work illustrates how President Trump's ceremonial speeches violate norms calling for a message of national unity and instead present a divisive message designed to create strongly negative emotions, especially fear and hate. It further reveals how Trump sustains those strong visceral reactions with his use of Twitter to make the rally atmosphere a daily reality for his supporters, a prime example being the Coronavirus Task Force briefings which he transformed from an exercise in desperately needed public health education into a partisan rally. The Rhetoric of Donald Trump is essential reading for scholars, students, and the informed citizen to understand how Trump's rhetoric of nationalist populism with a strongman persona undermines basic principles at the heart of American democracy.

The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Nationalist Populism and American Democracy

Reference

Rowland, Robert C.

Words, Language & Grammar

University Press of Kansas

Analyzing Rhetoric: A Handbook for the Informed Citizen in a New Millennium - Text

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Analyzing Rhetoric: A Handbook for the Informed Citizen in a New Millennium

Analyzing Rhetoric: A Handbook for the Informed Citizen in a New Millennium

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Based on the premise that the moral problems raised by the holocaust can be confronted only in myth, the author shows that Menachem Begin's rhetoric is based on how he views the world through the myth of holocaust and redemption through return. Demonstrates that the actions of the Begin administration, which many observers have found inexplicable, are perfectly logical when viewed from the perspective of the myth of return. Of interest to students of rhetoric, political science, the holocaust, and Zionism.

The Rhetoric of Menachem Begin

Biographies & Memoirs

University Press of America

An overview of the issues related to reducing juvenile crime in the United States.

United States Policy on Reducing Juvenile Crime: An Overview of the Issues Related to Reducing Juvenile Crime in the United States (Contemporary Issues Series (National Textbook Company).)

Natl Textbook Co

United States Policy Toward the People's Republic of China: An Overview of the Issues (Contemporary Issues)

Sociology

NTC Pub. Group

Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and the current Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what is now Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is usually treated as an issue of land and water. While these elements are the core of the conflict, they are heavily influenced by the symbols used by both peoples to describe, understand, and persuade each other. The authors argue that symbolic practices deeply influenced the Oslo Accords, and that the breakthrough in the peace process that led to Oslo could not have occurred without a breakthrough in communication styles. Rowland and Frank develop four crucial ideas on social development: the roles of rhetoric, ideology, and myth; the influence of symbolic factors; specific symbolic factors that played a key role in peace negotiations; and the identification and value of criteria for evaluating symbolic practices in any society.

Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli & Palestinian Symbol Use (Rhetoric & Public Affairs)

History

Frank, David A.

Middle East

Michigan State University Press

Workbook for Analyzing Rhetoric: A Handbook for the Informed Citizen in a New Millennium

Education & Teaching

Studying & Workbooks

Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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