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Apr 12, 2023 · In the lead-up to his 2021 election to become Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg spoke often about his record, which included litigation against former President Donald Trump. He did not ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A., campaigned as the best candidate to go after the former president. Now he finds himself leading Trump’s first prosecution — and perhaps the only one before the ...
Feb 9, 2022 · Trump derived strength from the fervor of his political base, and starting even before the vote, he worked steadily and consistently to convince his supporters that any election he did not win...
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- Anatomy of A Rally
- Trump on The Stump
- The Entrepreneur of Identity
- A Prototypical “Ordinary American”
- President Trump
A Trump rally involved much more than just a Trump speech. Important though his words were (and we will look at them in some detail), it is even more essential to look at the event as a performance of a particular worldview. Once again, the charge of irrationalism can serve to obscure because if we view Trump's crowds as mindless mobs led by primit...
Just as Trump's rallies brought to life a powerful representation of social relations, his speeches confirmed and fleshed out this representation. In this regard, his rhetoric was largely consistent from rally to rally and presented a particular example of a general form that the late cultural critic Sacvan Bercovitch called the “American jeremiad....
As we have seen, Donald Trump made much of his economic entrepreneurial skills and his ability to make deals—although these claims have come under some critical scrutiny. Indeed, Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of Trump's book The Art of the Deal, has described them as a work of fiction and said, “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to...
Trump clarified his own position in the world with reference to a classic populist confection in which that world is divided into two groups: the common people and a privileged elite. Here the people were defined in national terms—as Americans—and the elite primarily in political terms. Trump's claim to leadership was then rooted largely in the wor...
The presidential campaign went through many twists and turns after we first wrote this piece in the summer of 2016. If anything, Trump became even more extreme. The Billy Bush tapes, in which he boasted about assaulting women, seemed sure to disqualify him from the presidency. But for all that, on Election Day, he prevailed in the Electoral College...
May 7, 2024 · Donald Trump is leaning back with his eyes closed as Sally Franklin starts testifying. Prosecutor Rebecca Mangold asks her if she's familiar with any books titled "Trump: How to Get Rich" and ...
May 18, 2024 · The data shows the reason the elites don’t realize they’re elite is because they don’t think of themselves as rich. There’s a lot of class resentment in the top 20%, top 10% toward the billionaire class — they love to rail against the billionaires.
Nov 9, 2016 · John Cassidy writes about five factors that led Donald Trump to pull off a shocking victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election.
