![]() In addition to charting the defining characteristics of Trump’s discourse, The Twitter Presidency exposes how Trump’s rhetorical style threatens democratic norms, principles, and institutions. This commonality between communication practices and communication platform (manner and modality) struck a powerful emotive chord with his followers, who feel aggrieved at the decentering of white masculinity. There is, then, a structural homology between Trump’s general communication practices and the specific platform (Twitter) he uses to communicate with his base. His preferred modality of speaking, namely through Twitter, effectively channels and transmits the affective dimensions of white rage by taking advantage of the platform’s defining characteristics, which include simplicity, impulsivity, and incivility. Named one of the people transforming America by. The Second is lethal, writes Emory historian Anderson: steeped in anti-Blackness, it is the loaded weapon laying around just waiting for the hand of some authority to put it to use. Trump’s manner, the authors argue, reflects an aesthetics of white rage, and it is rooted in authoritarianism, narcissism, and demagoguery. White Rage Professor Carol Anderson talked about her book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, in which she chronicles when in history black progress has been met by what. Carol Anderson, author of White Rage and One Person, No Vote, Appears on WGTDs Generation NOW. The author of White Rage (2016) returns with a powerful consideration of the Second Amendment as a deliberately constructed instrument of White supremacy. ![]() Trump, attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his preferred modality. ![]() The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J. ![]()
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