Graduation Year
2017
Date of Submission
5-2017
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Government
Second Department
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Reader 1
Aseema Sinha
Rights Information
© 2017 Robert A Moore
Abstract
This essay provides a comparison of Trump’s rhetoric to fascist and populist ideology through an analysis and politolinguistic framing of the usage of apophasis, mesarchia, and pathos in Trump content spanning the first six months of his candidacy for the 2016 U.S. presidency seat. This account finds that Trump is decidedly Ur-Fascist or populist, and cannot be neither of the two, is likely both Ur-Fascist and populist, and leans more in favor of populist ideology given the analyses undertaken. This account ultimately aims to have supported critical discourse analysis (CDA) and politiolinguistics in support of these approaches as rigorous political tools, and to have encouraged the pursuit of political and civil awareness.
Recommended Citation
Moore, Robert A., "Candidacy Rhetoric in the Rise of The Donald and its Relation to Populist and Fascist Ideology" (2017). CMC Senior Theses. 1548.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1548
