Demagoguery

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/15/2020
  

  Why America Must Not Reelect this Demagogue: That’s What Trump is, and it Matters

  by Eli Merritt

  Trump is a demagogue –– and therefore a poison to democracy. Joe Biden is not. Voters must understand that clearly. The health, and possibly survival, of our democracy depends upon it.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/8/2020
  

  Why Americans Fall for Grifters: A Warning From a 1957 Film

  by Jake Tapper

  Journalist Jake Tapper reflects on the prescience of the 1957 Elia Kazan/Budd Schulberg film "A Face in the Crowd", which anticipated the power of inflammatory appeals in the mass media. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/24/2020
  

  The Guardians: Does "The Resistance" Actually Want More Democracy, or Less?

  by Samuel Moyn

  Samuel Moyn warns that a leading Never Trump legal scholar is less concerned with how Trump might harm minorities than with how Trump might harm the image of rule by elites. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2020
  

  Trump Keeps Taking Pages From Joe McCarthy’s Playbook

  by Larry Tye

  Anyone hoping the recency of Trump's conversion to Republicanism and conservatism might allow him to govern productively with Democrats should heed the example of Joseph McCarthy, who similary rebranded himself a conservative. Neither moderated because their political survival depended on extremism.