Few more things about this thread worth mentioning: - I don't think he's doing it on purpose. This is a dialect of sorts.https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/833282921339432960 …
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- It's simply that he's speaking a coercive/convincing form of English where a social contract is implicit.
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"We believe the same things, right, so I don't need to enumerate what I'm saying, right"
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I don't think it's a dogwhistle, either. Dogwhistles send specific messages in subtext coded by social contract. This isn't that.
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It's the non-specificity that makes it noteworthy. It's that the listener can inject *their* interpretation and receive a validation.
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The closest thing I can compare this to, tbh, is Twilight. Bella's character was written to be a blank slate so she appealed to every reader
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The character was given few defining traits other than that she was in the in-group of the target audience. Readers saw themselves in her.
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This is what Trump's speeches are. His base sees their views in him; they see their vision of how to run the country in what he says.
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They don't have to understand foreign policy. They make an opinion and see it in the President. By virtue of office, they feel it's legit.
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The result of this is that to combat this, we need to change *their* perceptions, not Trump's actions. We need to engage his base.
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Simply defeating Trump in court or in the voting booth won't change those beliefs, leaving us vulnerable to the next demagogue.
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he's relatively uneducated for a president. No grad school. That means he's not even in the top 10% in the US.
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I guess the bar for politicians is pretty low in the US though...
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Getting a degree doesn't necessarily make you intelligent or educated, especially when it comes to athletes and rich people
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