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Simple question for the #Impeachment defense: what do you think Trump's purpose was in calling his followers to DC and rallying them on 1/6? What kind of speech occasion do
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Trump has told us repeatedly not to pay attention to his words. He said such concern was merely "political correctness." He said it was only a "woman's concern" or how
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Oh, I see they'd like to make a distinction between Trump's pre-meditated and planned insurrection and the insurrection that Trump incited that same day?Why not both? Authoritarians:1) reject or show
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Just realized while doing an interview that Trump's silence is strategic and allows his defense to claim that he's no longer a clear & president danger to the republic. It
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I'm here for this >> House Democrats plan to focus impeachment trial on how rioters reacted to Trump’s remarkshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-trump-impeachment/2021/01/25/e747ec76-5f26-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story
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Edward Bernays, 1936 speech on propaganda:democracy, as a system of government & way of life, requires propaganda to sustain itself. People have to be reminded of what democracy matters, or
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I understand that Trump claims that people who read his speech thought it was appropriate. I'm an expert in rhetoric. It was not appropriate. He used war rhetoric and incited
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This @rhetsoc Board of Directors’ Statement Condemning Insurrectional Rhetoric and Resulting Violence 1/6/21 is very good:"Scholars of rhetoric have viewed the recent domestic terrorist attacks on the Capitol and the
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The de-platforming of Trump is an especially important moment in the relationship between the press and the presidency. Here's an article as background: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/187515 Presidential rhetoric schola
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This @chrislhayes segment from last night about how violent the insurrection actually was, is very good (and disturbing):https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-99178053752 There's a lot of interest in the relationship between communic
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I can't find the clip from yesterday where I tried a new approach to debunking Trump's big lie conspiracy about the election, but I'm going to try to write it
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Let's talk about Trump and the fascist aesthetic. Read this article from 2016: https://inthesetimes.com/article/18807/donald-trump-and-the-aesthetics-of-fascism"His media strategists are masters at detaching meaning from fact, maki
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