Opinion: Politicians censure his ugly words. Civic leaders demand apologies. But as if possessing some superpower, Trump brushes aside the scoldings to devote himself to ever greater verbal outrages
Trump has issued and it won’t mean a damn to his supporters. They’ve made their compact to comply with his demagogic authority, allowing them to blissfully ignore the reasoned criticisms of his detractors and allowing Trump to dodge accountability. In fact, he appears to enjoy being roughed up by the press, Mercieca notes, writing in his own book,that he didn’t “mind being attacked. I use the media the way that the media uses me—to attract attention.
I’ve only scraped the top layer of Mercieca’s thinking on Trumpian rhetoric. She attempts to fix his place in the constellation of demagogues, separating him, for example, from Hitler and Mussolini because he has not used violence in his climb to power.
Reading Mercieca prompted another question. How did Trump come to master these aspects of rhetoric? I doubt if he spent much time studying classical rhetoric at Fordham or the University of Pennsylvania. Former wife Ivana Trump once, and had read them. Asked about it, Trump responded with a kind ofMy guess is that if Trump has mastered rhetoric through book learning or imitation, he would be bragging about it like he does his other accomplishments, from real estate deals to golf scores.
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