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Title | The Consequences of Trump's Refugee Narratives on the Social and Political World |
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Author | Abele, Claire |
Date | 2024-05-19 |
Abstract | In recent years, the United States has undergone a shift in both societal cohesion, and political normalcy, at large an effect by a previously unprecedented style of political cohesion. Beginning with Donald Trump?s presidential campaign, and following presidency, he spoke about refugees, immigrants, and displaced people in astonishingly generalizing, and disparaging terms. The president had a unique style of communication not only for the publicly overwhelming way he negatively spoke about groups of people who were seeking entrance in the country, but for the manner in which he persuaded millions of people that he was an immigration panacea and was able to form such a loyal base of followers. Through this study I am to analyze how Trump?s usage of alt-resilience and storytelling helped shape the social world in the United States from the years 2015-2020, as well as how the communicative creation of a sense of ?others? prove advantageous to Trump?s political career. Trump?s communication is known to be disparaging and informal, but it has not been studied through the communication theory of resilience and the theory of narrative paradigm. It is crucial to understand both the construction and implications of Trump?s communication between the years of 2015 and 2020, for there have been significant social and political effects as a result. I gathered a sample of Trump?s political speeches through C-SPAN and analyzed them to understand more about what tactics he used to make his speech as persuasive as possible. I found time and time again that he told inflammatory stories about those seeking entrance into the United States that lacked in detail and fact, generated a sense of ?us versus them? and victim mentality within American society, which encouraged attitudes of nativism and proved extremely device within the nation?s society. |
Link | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66843 |
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