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Jennifer Mercieca on Trump, ad baculum, ad hominem, paralepsis, & outrage
General Summary: Professor Jen Mercieca talks about her book, Demagogue for President, and the way that President Trump may be considered a demagogue while looking back at his 2016 election strategies. A UT undergraduate student conducts an interview with Professor Mercieca, asking questions about her thoughts about Trump’s presidency and her opinions on whether the demagogic tendencies have changed or remained constant throughout the past four years.
Detailed Summary: Introduction to Professor Mercieca, her book, and her research(00.00-03.30); Mercieca discusses her thoughts on the two sides of Trump’s appeals, one being the unification of Americans through exceptionalism and the other being the demonization of a common enemy (03.31-06.30); argumentum ad baculum in Trump’s rhetoric (06.31-10.48); the definition of a demagogue (10.49-12.00); Trump’s untruthfulness in regards to his supporters and in regards to political correctness (12.01-17.23); Trump’s ad hominem responses to criticism and his outrage causing appeals, and how to hold him accountable for those appeals (17.24-23.16); Mercieca discusses the consequences of Trump’s rhetoric and how it plays a part in political discourse (23.17-25.50); conclusion (25.51-28.03).
Scholarly Articles Informing this Production: Mercieca, Jen. Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2020.
Credits: This podcast was produced by Mark Longaker, Ali Shirazi, and Ryan Keniston. It features the voices of Ali Shirazi and Professor Jen Mercieca. Music featured in this podcast, titled “commonGround”, was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under CreativeCommons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adapted and incorporated under a Creative Commons 1.0 license.
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By Digital Writing and Research Lab, UT AustinGeneral Summary: Professor Jen Mercieca talks about her book, Demagogue for President, and the way that President Trump may be considered a demagogue while looking back at his 2016 election strategies. A UT undergraduate student conducts an interview with Professor Mercieca, asking questions about her thoughts about Trump’s presidency and her opinions on whether the demagogic tendencies have changed or remained constant throughout the past four years.
Detailed Summary: Introduction to Professor Mercieca, her book, and her research(00.00-03.30); Mercieca discusses her thoughts on the two sides of Trump’s appeals, one being the unification of Americans through exceptionalism and the other being the demonization of a common enemy (03.31-06.30); argumentum ad baculum in Trump’s rhetoric (06.31-10.48); the definition of a demagogue (10.49-12.00); Trump’s untruthfulness in regards to his supporters and in regards to political correctness (12.01-17.23); Trump’s ad hominem responses to criticism and his outrage causing appeals, and how to hold him accountable for those appeals (17.24-23.16); Mercieca discusses the consequences of Trump’s rhetoric and how it plays a part in political discourse (23.17-25.50); conclusion (25.51-28.03).
Scholarly Articles Informing this Production: Mercieca, Jen. Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2020.
Credits: This podcast was produced by Mark Longaker, Ali Shirazi, and Ryan Keniston. It features the voices of Ali Shirazi and Professor Jen Mercieca. Music featured in this podcast, titled “commonGround”, was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under CreativeCommons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adapted and incorporated under a Creative Commons 1.0 license.