Most directions are on the “RWS 200 Assignment 2 S20 TT” document attached. In short, the paper revolves around a single demagogic figure, present or historical, and explaining how the person is demagogic through the lens of Roberts-Miller’s article (attached below), by identifying demagogic rhetoric within the demagogue’s speeches. See the two documents on “characteristics of demagoguery” for details.
The paper should be 6 pages, with an introduction, audience paragraph, at least 4 body paragraphs, and a conclusion. The thesis is a very important part of the introduction, and should say that “[person] is a demagogue,” and tied into Roberts-Miller’s article. The audience paragraph will identify the demagogue’s in-group, their contextual sources of anxiety, and how the outgroup(s) fit into them. Each body paragraph should talk about ONE specific characteristic of demagoguery from the attached document. The powerpoint attached “RWS 200 Organizing an Academic Paper” explains the structure of the paper. Please follow precisely, as this style may be different than other essays.
A reference paper “MX Rhetorical Analysis” that I have written on a different topic is attached to see paper style.
Other powerpoint that may help are also attached.
The Roberts-Miller article can be found here http://www.patriciarobertsmiller.com/characteristics-of-demagoguery/
Here are some potential sources for this essay. Feel free to cite others.
Sanders Senate speech from 2012: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-bernard-sanders-floor-statement-june-27-2012
Presidential announcement: https://berniesanders.com/bernies-announcement/
Open letter to CEOs: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/sanders-to-ceos-look-in-the-mirror
Racial justice: https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/
Interview with Morning Joe about banks and “too big to fail”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBTo3xeiGMQ
Speech on Wall Street reform from 5 Jan. 2016 (mislabeled as 2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL0uV-qJvYM
Trump Presidential announcement: http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/
Immigration policy: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-statement-on-preventing-muslim-immigration
Anderson Cooper interview about Muslims: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/03/10/trump_islam_hates_us.html
Statement on banning Muslim immigration: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-statement-on-preventing-muslim-immigration http://thememoryhole2.org/blog/trump-muslim-immigration
News story from CNN on Trump’s proposal for surveillance on some mosques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdoupKZa2Bs
CBS News story on Trump’s willingness to consider closing mosques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFi5Z51UcIE
2011 Christian Broadcasting Network interview where Trump argues that the world has a “Muslim problem”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi1fBUgYjAU
Article about the wall with Mexico: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/trumps-changing-wall/?utm_term=.91fae9ef453f
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ocasio-Cortez, “The Green New Deal”: https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution%20on%20a%20Green%20New%20Deal.pdf
Schreckinger, “Why Trump’s Superfans Dig Ocasio-Cortez”: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/30/aoc-congress-republicans-1134065
Blake, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Very Bad Defense of Her Falsehoods”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-very-bad-defense-her-falsehoods/?utm_term=.1f09da89fa14
Hasan, “AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans”: https://theintercept.com/2019/02/26/democratic-party-centrism-aoc-sanders-warren/
McCarthy, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Rise and Rise of the Attention Candidate”: https://spectator.us/ocasio-cortez-attention-candidate/
Remnick, “Alexandrai Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!”: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-coming-for-your-hamburgers
Taibbi, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Crusher of Sacred Cows”: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-media-781571/
Page, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an Anti-Trumper Who Is Surprisingly Trump-Like”: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/page/ct-perspec-page-donald-trump-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi-1128-20181127-story.html
Boot, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Shouldn’t Approach Her Facts the Way Trump Does”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-shouldnt-approach-her-facts-way-trump-does/?utm_term=.c47789ff848f
Goldberg, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Trump: A Case Study in Double Standards”: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-trump-a-case-study-in-double-standards/
Cooper, “Why Centrists Are Obsessed with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”: https://theweek.com/articles/816346/why-centrists-are-obsessed-alexandria-ocasiocortez
Levitz, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Critique of Fact-Checking Is Valid”: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-60-minutes-fact-check-critique-medicare-for-all.html
Thompson, “The Political Question of the Future: But Are They Real?” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/politicians-are-live-streaming-videos-instagram/579490/
Parker, “The Demagoguery of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”: https://www.creators.com/read/star-parker/07/18/the-demagoguery-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez
Some more general texts about demagoguery in the 21st century:
Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, “A Surprising Number of Americans Dislike How Messy Democracy Is. They Like Trump”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/02/a-surprising-number-of-americans-dislike-how-messy-democracy-is-they-like-trump/?utm_term=.c1adee4ee30d
Green, “How American Politics Became So Exhausting”: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/alan-jacobs-how-to-think/542430/
Hanson, “The Uses of Populism”: http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/the-uses-of-populism/
Muller, “Real Citizens”: http://bostonreview.net/politics/jan-werner-muller-populism
Fisher, “Trump’s Blunt, Harsh Rhetoric Hasn’t Softened From the Campaign Trail, Speech Experts Say”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-blunt-harsh-rhetoric-hasnt-softened-from-the-campaign-trail-speech-experts-say/2017/01/25/c12035c6-e329-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?utm_term=.6beeb8a00ac1
Smith, “Dynasty and Demagogues: What the US Election Shares With African Democracy”: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/us-election-trump-clinton-africa-democracy
Swensen, “Why the Rise of Internet Video Is Perfect for Demagogues Like Trump”: http://www.newsweek.com/why-rise-internet-video-perfect-demagogues-donald-trump-497996
Foot, “We’ve Seen Donald Trump Before — His Name Was Silvio Berlusconi”: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/20/donald-trump-silvio-berlusconi-italy-prime-minister
Stewart, “The Berlusconi Phenomenon — Gifted Demagogue or Lucky Buffoon?”: http://southerncrossreview.org/68/stewart-berlusconi.htm
Ragozin, “The ‘Us and Them’ Divide Worked for Putin and It Will Work for Trump”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/17/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-xenophobia-country-divide
Chen, “When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power” [Rodrigo Duterte]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/when-a-populist-demagogue-takes-power
Friedman, “Seeing Hitler Everywhere”: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/hitler-trump-putin-duterte/504545/
Mammone, “Trump and the Demagogues of Modern Nationalism”: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea-mammone/trump-in-the-west_b_9991262.html
Zocalo Public Square, “What History Teaches Us About Demagogues Like The Donald”: http://time.com/4375262/history-demagogues-donald-trump/
Freeman, “Meet the Trump of Ancient Rome, a Populist Demagogue Who Helped Bring Down the Republic”: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-freeman/trump-rome-populist_b_9659660.html
Meyer, “Donald Trump Is the First Demagogue of the Anthropocene”: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/trump-the-first-demagogue-of-the-anthropocene/504134/
Fallows, “The Republican Party Is Enabling an Increasingly Dangerous Demagogue”: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/the-republican-party-is-enabling-an-increasingly-dangerous-demagogue/537723/
Shafer, “Donald Trump, American Demagogue”: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/dont-write-trumps-obit-yet-121232
Signer, “Donald Trump Wasn’t a Textbook Demagogue. Until Now”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/12/02/donald-trump-wasnt-a-textbook-demagogue-until-now/?utm_term=.e33c07d8cf7f
Stromberg, “In His Acceptance Speech, Trump Displays His Demagoguery”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/07/22/in-his-acceptance-speech-trump-displays-his-demagoguery/?utm_term=.2c2f3b853c98
Garber, “What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Demagogues'”: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-demagogues/419514/
Collinson, “Is Donald Trump a Demagogue?”: https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/politics/donald-trump-rick-perry-demagogue/index.html
Swaim, “How Donald Trump’s Language Works for Him”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/15/how-trump-speak-has-pushed-the-donald-into-first-place/?utm_term=.7badb48b5378
Kruse, “Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway”: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800
Aslan, “The Dangerous Cult of Donald Trump”: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-aslan-trump-cultists-20171106-story.html
Scherer, “For Each Scene of His Presidency, Trump Casts a Villain (or Two, or Three . . .)”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-each-scene-of-his-presidency-trump-casts-a-villain-or-two-or-three-/2017/10/16/d29d2330-b287-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.e3471c7d1b52
Fisher, “The Political Lexicon of a Billionaire Populist”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-political-lexicon-of-a-billionaire-populist/2017/03/09/4d4c2686-ff86-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.870a88b54459
“The Art of the Demagogue”: https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21663242-republican-party-regularly-sees-insurgents-its-primaries-self-funding-one-who-seems
Huey P. Long, “Every Man a King,” 1934: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hueyplongking.htm
Joseph McCarthy, “Prosecution of Edward R. Murrow on CBS’ ‘See It Now,'” 1954: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/josephmccarthycbsseeitnow.htm
Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” 1964: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html
Ronald Reagan, The “Evil Empire” speech, 1983: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/march-8-1983-evil-empire-speech [Click “View Transcript” to see speech’s text.]
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