President Trump has always understood the value of a simple story from the back of the 2025 White -House Breath Room lecturer in the 1990s, a reality show in the 2000s.
His storytelling always has a villain.
Last week, after the plane and a helicopter crashed over the Potomax River in Washington, the president blamed the recruitment program to promote diversity, and made his fingers to major targets of his early administration.
When a man killed 10 people in New Orleans in New Year’s vehicles, Trump linked the attack to his main political concerns without waiting to see who the attacker was. It seemed to blame illegal immigrants immediately. American born in the United States.
As the government suffered a Fentanil crisis, Trump was responsible for his neighbors and threatened tariffs as punishment.
My colleagues and I reported a lot about Trump’s blame games. I wrote about the target of his political enemy after the California mountain fire. Peter Baker has recently pointed out that Trump has thoroughly blasted the hopes that the president would seek unity after the tragedy. Today, Erica Green often sees his racism in his scapegeau racism.
However, to some extent, there are still unstable works. Why did Trump’s fingertips, which have been part of his political weapons since publishing his first presidential bidding in 2015, look politically effective?
The question was asked to Charles Zug, the author of the Demaggary in politics, to Charles Zug, an assistant professor at the Truman Public School of Missouri University. He started answering with a pretty simple idea.
Many issues that confront American politicians and government officials are not due to the actions of one or a single group, but are caused by a large non -person system that is difficult to explain. Think about the crash drop of an airplane. This raises a lot of questions about the potential safety decreased cascade.
“DeMagoguery is actually a very non -personality and systematic personalization,” Zug told me. Some presidents have switched between personalized and systematic, but Trump focuses on the former.
“A part of his success is a type of creation of the fictional world of enemies that his supporters can buy, that is, the whole villain and heroes,” said Zug.
I am not very satisfied to tell someone what had happened because it was unlucky, the government could not regulate something properly, or that the state failed in some process that was deployed in slow motion. yeah.
“If you were told that you had a bad thing, there were people who wanted to ruin you, you want to use you, so you did not care about you and was actively invested in your destruction. You are doing something. Zugu explained that it is likely to be motivated to do. ” He said that Trump believes that “Trump will acknowledge the behavior of those who will shake the nation to prove the wishes and expectations of these people.
Find a general enemy
To block the country’s complex problems in a simple story of good and evil is not a tactic invented by Trump. All the most successful political leaders in history from the left or right reached out to a clear story about heroes and villains to motivate supporters.
Vermont’s Senator Bernie Sanders should consider the Democratic Party by blaming the people’s misery of “Million Elders and Million Billions”.
However, Trump did not want to use tragedy and the moment of disaster for his political purpose. And at the beginning of his presidential position, he is further responsible for being responsible for a more vulnerable or underestimated community than his recent predecessor.
These moments are evidence of the discussion during the campaign and the story he talked about to gather voters’ victory.
“Trump is building a coalition with a scapegoat,” said Yale’s professor, Jason Stanley, the author of “Fascist Mechanism: Our and their politics”, was born in France. He introduced me to the work of Rene Jirad. It has influenced Vice President JD VANCE and investor Peter Thew.
According to Stanley, Jirad’s theory states that scapegeating is a way to connect people to common enemies, which creates unity among people who fall into conflicts. “
It is not only Trump itself who identifies the villain that complies with his political worldview. Last week, Transgender’s black hork helicopter pilot posted a “proof” video online, in response to an online post that blamed Washington’s fatal aviation accident.
“It’s been humiliated by my family to connect this to some kind of political agenda,” she said. “They are not worth it. I’m not worth this.”
How to identify the government website with a shortage of 8,000
On weekends, my colleague Ethan Singer reported that thousands of government websites, including information on vaccines, veterans, hatred crimes, and scientific research, were filmed offline. I asked Ethan to explain how he found them.
We started with the list of the most popular government website provided by the General Service Bureau. At around 4 pm on Friday, I wrote a short computer program to get down the list and get the “site map” of each site. In essence, it is a complete list of all pages hosted on that site. (These pages are often used in search engines like Google to track the contents on the Internet.)
About an hour later, I had a list of over 7 million web pages, which was a live performance of over 150 government sites.
After that, I needed to repeat the process and compare the new list with the old list. As a whole, it has been repeated about 20 times. (I left it overnight and let it run on the laptop while the long YouTube video was played, so that the machine did not sleep.)
Once completed, I checked the list of pages on the original list but not the latest list.
Eventually, I found more than 8,000 deleted pages on 12 or more sites. Many of these pages seemed to be associated with the Trump administration’s presidential order to end a program that promotes gender ideology. Others were characterized by terms and phrases such as environmental justice. Fairness and inclusion; and pregnant people.
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-Etang singer
