A Trumpian Mechanism

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE

CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2021-05-10 DOI:10.7771/1481-4374.4012

Emmett Peixoto

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Abstract

In 2016, a liar made a hypocrite appear worse and thereby won the US presidency. How did a liar, which is traditionally deemed something worse than a hypocrite, manage to do this? This article offers an answer. It does so by uncovering a peculiar mechanism, a Trumpian mechanism, at the heart of Trump’s relations with his critics. The mechanism explains how Trump benefited from wrong-footing his critics and is thus essential for understanding Trump’s success. The article offers a few key examples of this mechanism working against Trump’s political opponents, e.g., Trump’s (first) impeachment. It then shows how the mechanism also worked against Trump in regard to his handling of Covid-19. Ultimately, the mechanism helps explain both the outcome of the 2016 and the 2020 elections. The article concludes by stressing the importance of using this mechanism to better understand the Trump phenomenon. It claims that using the mechanism as a guide to understand Trump can prevent empowering the very object we, as critics, often aim to disempower.

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特朗普式机制

2016年，一个骗子让一个伪君子显得更糟，从而赢得了美国总统大选。一个传统上被认为比伪君子更糟糕的骗子是如何做到这一点的?本文提供了一个答案。它通过揭示特朗普与批评者关系核心的一种特殊机制，一种特朗普式的机制来实现这一点。这一机制解释了特朗普是如何从错误的批评中获益的，因此对于理解特朗普的成功至关重要。这篇文章提供了几个关键的例子，说明这种机制是如何对付特朗普的政治对手的，比如特朗普的(第一次)弹劾。然后展示了这一机制在特朗普处理Covid-19方面是如何对他不利的。最终，这一机制有助于解释2016年和2020年大选的结果。文章最后强调了利用这一机制更好地理解特朗普现象的重要性。它声称，利用这一机制作为理解特朗普的指南，可以防止赋予我们作为批评者经常试图剥夺权力的对象权力。

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CLCWEB-Comparative Literature and Culture LITERATURE-

CiteScore

0.40

自引率

33.30%

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审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： The intellectual trajectory of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture is located in the humanities and social sciences in the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in all of its products and processes; its theoretical and methodological framework is built on tenets borrowed from the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies and from a range of thought including literary and culture theory, systems theory, and communication theories; in comparative cultural studies focus is on theory and method, as well as on application; in comparative cultural studies metaphorical argumentation and description are discouraged; the intellectual trajectory of the journal includes the postulate to work in a global and intercultural context with a plurality of methods and approaches, and in interdisciplinarity in the study of the processes of communicative action(s) in culture, the production and processes of culture, the products of culture, and the study of the how of these processes; the epistemological bases of comparative cultural studies are in (radical) constructivism and in methodology the contextual (systemic and empirical) approach is favored (however, comparative cultural studies does not exclude textual analysis proper or other established fields of scholarship).