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THE HYPERBOLE OF THE DAY CONTEST

3/20/2018

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​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?”. 
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Gary Pence
3/20/2018 08:26:50 pm

"I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star.....to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!" tweeted January 6, 2018

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