![]() Meyer) of The Resistance: The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement. Sidney Tarrow is the Maxwell Upson Emeritus Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the co-author (with Stuart Blumin) of Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Altschuler is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. His steady approval ratings remind us that it takes informed people to produce collective wisdom as Benjamin Franklin warned his fellow citizens, the Constitutional Convention established a republic, “if you can keep it.” But, alas, he does seem to be burrowing beneath an already low bar. ![]() Of course, Trump is by no means solely responsible for debasing our political discourse. What, you think our country’s so innocent.”Įxample: Following the indictment of Roger Stone for lying to Congress, Trump asked, “What about the lying done by Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Lisa Page & lover, Baker and soooo many others?” Just found out that Obama had my ‘ wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.”ġ1) “You, Too”: A diversionary tactic that focuses attention on a similar misdeed by an opponent.Įxample: Asked about murders ordered by Vladimir Putin, Trump replied, “There are a lot of killers. In a March 6 briefing, Trump blamed the delays on his predecessor Barack Obama. And we undid that decision a few days ago so that the testing can take place in a much more accurate and rapid fashion. I wonder is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?”ġ0) Red Herring: a distraction from the matter-at-hand with a statement that is false or not really relevant.Įxample: In Finland, “they spent a lot of time raking and cleaning and doing things and they don’t have any problem” (with forest fires).Įxample: Two days after Attorney General Sessions recused himself from Justice Department investigations of Russian meddling in the election of 2016, Trump tweeted, “Terrible. The Red Herring The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing. I notice that Stonewall Jackson’s (statue is) coming down. Then they’ll probably end up stealing the cars.”Įxample: “ This week it’s Robert E. Ford is going “to build a plant and illegals are going to drive those cars right over the border. ) tells me that (he didn’t meddle in the 2016 presidential election) he means it.”Įxample: “ I don’t believe he (Kim Jong Un) would have allowed (the torture of Otto Warmbier) to happen… I will take him at his word that he didn’t know.”Ĩ) Bandwagons: The assumption that claims should be accepted as right and/or good because many/most people say so.Įxample: “ Everybody agrees that (Russian meddling had) no impact on votes in this election.”Įxample: “ Everybody knew” about the Trump Tower project in Moscow during the presidential campaign.ĩ) Slippery Slopes: Moves from an initial premise, which might seem benign, through a number of steps that lead to a dangerous (and allegedly inevitable) extreme.Įxample: “ You know what’s going to happen,” Trump predicted during the campaign. “Get thee glasse-eyes,” King Lear tells the blind Duke of Gloucester, “and like a scurvy Politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.”
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