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Three Historical Perspectives on Trump, the Presidency, and American Populism
Author(s) -
Pickering David
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.12964
Subject(s) - populism , rhetoric , presidency , scholarship , conversation , presidential system , identity (music) , sociology , political science , social science , media studies , epistemology , aesthetics , law , philosophy , politics , linguistics , communication
This article attempts to set up a conversation between certain aspects of the considerable scholarship on rhetoric and populist identity, on the one hand, and the historical perspectives on American populism provided by Michael Kazin; Christopher Lasch and a recent set of studies of the history of presidential rhetoric. It ends with tentative reflections on the effects of these historical perspectives for contemporary discussions.