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8 - Trump’s Novelty

from Part V - Feeling Tired

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Roderick P. Hart
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Well after it ended, the 2016 presidential campaign remained enigmatic. What parallel universe could explain how Donald John Trump became the nation’s forty-fifth chief executive? How could an experienced, supremely capable woman like Hillary Rodham Clinton be defeated? The punditocracy sputtered for a while after the final votes were tabulated but its explanations soon poured forth: The Daily Wire’s Aaron Bandler offered “Seven Reasons Trump Won,” only to be outdone by CNN’s Gregory Krieg’s “Twenty-Four Theories” for the election’s outcome. The BBC’s Anthony Zurcher proved a piker, only able to adduce “Five Reasons Donald Trump Won” and was further embarrassed by Howard Gold’s “Five Huge Reasons Donald Trump Won.”1 Still, Zurcher won the rhetorical war by declaring that Trump “had built a throne of skulls out of his Republican primary opponents.”2

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Trump and Us
What He Says and Why People Listen
, pp. 167 - 195
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Trump’s Novelty
  • Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Trump and Us
  • Online publication: 24 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108854979.008
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  • Trump’s Novelty
  • Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Trump and Us
  • Online publication: 24 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108854979.008
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  • Trump’s Novelty
  • Roderick P. Hart, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book: Trump and Us
  • Online publication: 24 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108854979.008
Available formats
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