Demexit
Jul 28, 2016 ·
45m 4s
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There's nothing new about the use of doomsday rhetoric in politics. Check out historian Richard Hofstadter's classic 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics."Trump apparently follows the Machiavellian view...
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There's nothing new about the use of doomsday rhetoric in politics. Check out historian Richard Hofstadter's classic 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics."Trump apparently follows the Machiavellian view that you can win more supporters with fear than with love. But in one authoritarian regime after another, we have seen how the politics of fear often leads to more problems that people should be fearful about.Clarence Page
Demexit like Brexit has set this country on a new political course.
Producted by Emma Young
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Demexit like Brexit has set this country on a new political course.
Producted by Emma Young
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