The Hyperbole of the Day Contest
Is Donald Trump a demagogue or a populist? That questions brought me back to studying demagogy. But as I was finishi8ng the article which has now appeared as the cover story in the Spring American Scholar, I saw more and more clearly that demagogy, ancient and modern, was best understood as a form of political discourse, not as a set of policies. Maybe I didn’t make that as clear as I should have in my book on the demagogues, The New Politicians of Fifth Century Athens. So I am now turning my attention to hyperbole, a key ingredient in the discourse of demagogy.
Will you help by posting here your favorite hyperbole. It doesn’t have to be from Trump but he sure is a wonderful source of them
PS Click here the link to my American Scholar. article, “Populist or Demagogue?”.
Is Donald Trump a demagogue or a populist? That questions brought me back to studying demagogy. But as I was finishi8ng the article which has now appeared as the cover story in the Spring American Scholar, I saw more and more clearly that demagogy, ancient and modern, was best understood as a form of political discourse, not as a set of policies. Maybe I didn’t make that as clear as I should have in my book on the demagogues, The New Politicians of Fifth Century Athens. So I am now turning my attention to hyperbole, a key ingredient in the discourse of demagogy.
Will you help by posting here your favorite hyperbole. It doesn’t have to be from Trump but he sure is a wonderful source of them
PS Click here the link to my American Scholar. article, “Populist or Demagogue?”.
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