by Olivia Kesselring | Feb 21, 2019 | Saint Louis University
Populist rhetoric emerges as the dominant theme in the race for the 2020 presidency, further polarizing the left and right. Over the last few years, there has been a rise in candidates on both ends of the political spectrum re-defining their political ideologies in...
by Nicholas Bornstein | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
Just over a month ago, President Donald Trump remarked to a group of reporters that, “…my actings are doing really great… I sort of like ‘acting’. It gives me more flexibility; do you understand that?”. The “actings” he referred to include Acting Attorney General Matt...
by Sophie Secor | Feb 12, 2019 | Boston University
The 2016 Trump campaign was unlike any other campaign that America has ever seen. The highly publicized, and infamous candidate was anything but a politician. Rumors of Russian interference in the election, sex scandals, and controversial statements surrounded Trump...
by Baxter Shirey | Nov 2, 2018 | Georgia State University
Trump makes a bad populist leader because he has no real intention of helping the common man, and must maintain this facade in ways that test the normal bounds of executive power – like by lying and enacting superficial policies that are meant to keep him in...
by Alexander Lloyd | Oct 25, 2018 | Georgia State University
Despite the absurdity of the 2016 election, the success of Donald J. Trump was not a random fluke but rather the result of a series of events starting with the Compromise of 1877. As described in How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the norms of...
