scholarly journals Famous women yearn for Putin, and other unlikely tales: Glamorizing right-wing populist actors in the Bulgarian editions of Cosmopolitan and Elle

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-241
Author(s):  
Miglena Sternadori
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
The Core ◽  
Women's Magazine ◽  
Vladimir Putin ◽  
Silvio Berlusconi

This analysis identifies the dominant media frames in the coverage of four right-wing populist actors — Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, and Roman Abramovich — by the Bulgarian editions of Elle and Cosmopolitan. Although the political platforms of these men are not, in fact, anti-establishment, which is the core characteristic of populism, they are referred to as populist actors because of their use of populist tools and discourses to practice so-called “neo-populism from above.” The four men were framed as: a carriers of a “golden touch”; b sources of profound/problematic wisdom; and c admirable collectors of “trophy” women. The findings are discussed as illustrative of the tabloidization of U.S. women’s magazine brands in the post-communist context of Bulgaria.

The Russian Connection

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-169
Author(s):  
Rodney A. Smolla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Dna Test ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Vladimir Putin

This chapter begins with an account of Anna Anderson, an immigrant to the United States who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia that was exposed to be fake after a DNA test. It discusses the collusive connections between Russia and the American radical alt-right. It also identifies several figures that were prominent in the Unite the Right events in Charlottesville in 2017 and strongly supported the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump. The chapter highlights how alt-right groups idolize Russia's leader Vladimir Putin, seeing him as the sort of strong-willed authoritarian dedicated to “traditional values” that the world needs. It discloses how Russia has been the hospitable home and host of American right-wing extremists, such as David Duke who moved to Russia in 1999.

scholarly journals Krisis Legitimasi Politik Donald Trump Sebagai Ancaman Supremasi Amerika Serikat Dalam Politik Global

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Ahmad Sahide
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legitimacy Theory ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Vladimir Putin

Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States who was sworn in on January 20, 2017. Donald Trump's victory shook the global political order because a number of his statements and political policies were very controversial. A number of controversial Trump policies include the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the closeness of relations with Vladimir Putin, to protectionist policies that get resistance from within and outside the country. The author uses the legitimacy theory in this study to see the political impact of the policies taken by Trump. The results of this study see that Donald Trump's policy controversy has an impact on the crisis of political legitimacy which results in the threat of US political supremacy in the global political arena.

Alt-Right Transgressions in the Age of Trump

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 76-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Political Movements ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Audiences ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Vladimir Putin

Abstract The alt-right movement dates from 2008 when white supremacist Richard Spencer invented the term to identify contemporary right-wing and far-right socio/political movements. The movement relies on mass media, communicating graphically and symbolically through “trolls,” “tropes,” and “memes.” The “Sadomasochist trope” valorizes aggressive actors like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, while demonizing “passive” individuals like Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. Trolls communicate through memes, single-frame or short video phrases matched with photos and cartoons, to attract online audiences. When not attacking liberals and progressives, alt-right memes turn on traditional conservatives. The alt-right community maintains it is “under assault” in today’s politically correct, overly secularized, culturally diverse society. However, Donald Trump elevated alt-right icon and former Breitbart ceo Stephen Bannon to chief advisor, providing the alt-right movement access to the highest government levels. Will alt-right organizations continue their recent expansion, or will the public lose interest in the movement?

The Kushner Plan: Keeping Israeli-Palestinian Peace out of Reach

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Pillar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
State Solution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Right ◽  
Current Arrangement ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Israeli Occupation

The U.S. administration's Israeli-Palestinian “peace plan,” under President Donald Trump, has so far yielded only an inconclusive talkfest about economic development. The underlying rationale of the plan—that economics must come before any addressing of core political issues—is fundamentally flawed for several reasons. The biggest impediments to Palestinian economic development stem from aspects of the Israeli occupation that would continue under the plan, which rejects a two-state solution and is a slightly revised and renamed version of the current arrangement of limited Palestinian autonomy under Israeli domination. The plan flows directly from the Trump administration's policy of acquiescing in the preferences of the right-wing government of Israel. Accordingly, the political portion of the plan is indefinitely delayed and might never be announced. Keeping the full plan under wraps serves the Israeli government's purpose of holding out the promise of—but never delivering—peace with the Palestinians, while more facts are created on the ground.

Illusion as a Basic Psychic Principle: Winnicott, Freud, Oedipus, and Trump

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Seligman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Healthy Living ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The World

Illusion can be viewed as a creative engagement with the world, and as a central psychic motivation and capacity, rather than as a form of self-deception. Winnicott and other Middle Group writers have understood integrative, imaginative illusion as an essential part of healthy living and psychosocial development. As such, it emerges and presents itself in a variety of ways, in transaction with the realities that support or degrade it. In its absence, varied difficulties in living ensue. To elaborate and illustrate this conceptualization, Freud’s notion that the oedipus complex is resolved is reconsidered as a creative misreading of Sophocles’ Oedipus trilogy, one based on the plausible illusion of a civilizing psychosocial development that would serve as a protective bastion against his experience of the political chaos and violence of the first decades of twentieth-century European history. Finally, the place of illusion and disillusionment among those most disillusioned by the recent election of Donald Trump in the United States is considered in relation to the recent right-wing populist turn.

scholarly journals SPEECH PORTRAIT OF A POLITICAL LEADER (BASED ON THE INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE RUSSIAN AND US PRESIDENTS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rimma R. Galiakberova ◽  
Dilyara B. Garifullina ◽  
Lyutsiya G. Khismatullina
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Communication Analysis ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vladimir Putin ◽  
The Given

An inaugural address is part of the political reality of the country, and represents an essential moment in delivering political visions for the future by presidents. The given paper deals with the inauguration speeches of Vladimir Putin (2018) and Donald Trump (2017) and is aimed at analyzing the role of verbal means in forming the speech portraits of An inaugural address is part of the political reality of the country, and represents an essential moment in delivering political visions for the future by presidents. The given paper deals with the inauguration speeches of Vladimir Putin (2018) and Donald Trump (2017) and is aimed at analyzing the role of verbal means in forming the speech portraits of political leaders. By means of comparative content analysis we looked for grammatical, lexical and stylistic elements peculiar to a specific linguistic persona while comparing the speeches of the presidents as well as we attempted to determine the specific national backgrounds of political discourse. We found out that the speech portrait of a country leader is strongly related to his national identity, mentality and socio-political course of the country. Thus, each president’s inauguration context model is mostly characterized by a different set of linguistic means. The paper findings may be useful for researchers who deal with interdisciplinary studies, political and cognitive linguistics, political discourse and communication analysis.

Where We Are

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-56
Author(s):  
Matt Carlson ◽  
Sue Robinson ◽  
Seth C. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
News Industry

This chapter examines the political and media environment during the presidency of Donald Trump. The first half considers how various political forces aligned to provide an opening for Trump. This includes the polarization of the voting public and a hardening of political identity. These conditions, in connection with global political trends, enabled a right-wing populist movement. The second half of the chapter considers the journalistic context, with an emphasis on how increasing media choice and new intermediaries like social media platforms altered how news circulates and who gets to speak. These structural shifts are coupled with long-running trends pointing to declining trust in journalism, a growing partisan divide in how journalists are viewed, and a questioning of how various communities are represented in the news. On top of all this, the news industry has struggled to develop sustainable digital business models, leading to fewer resources for reporting.

scholarly journals Granice w wizji politycznej współczesnej skrajnej prawicy w Niemczech

Politeja ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1(58)) ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Agata Kałabunowska
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Core ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Crisis

Borders in the Political Vision of Contemporary Extreme Right in Germany The article deals with the issue of broadly defined borders in political and ideological programmes of selected extreme right organisations in contemporary Germany (AfD, NPD, IBD). The starting point for the textual and content analysis of actual programs of these organizations is the author’s reflection on the importance of dichotomy in the broader political view of the extreme right. The author claims that the considerably strong focus of the selected right‑wing organisations on the issue of physical or cultural borders does not only derive from the timing of their activism – the so called migration crisis. It is rather pre‑defined by the ideological features of the far right in general. The core ideological elements ascribed to the far right as a stream of political thought, such as nationalism or authoritarianism, are based on the dichotomy and influence on the far right perception of the world.

“All the Demagogue’s Men”

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-148
Author(s):  
Shmuel Nili
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Media ◽  
Systematic Solution ◽  
Silvio Berlusconi ◽  
As If

This chapter revolves around “media demagogues”: politicians who rely on their mastery of the media, and on recurrent lies, as they exploit the electorate’s worst fears and prejudices to gain and retain power. The rise of media demagogues produces integrity complexity for the political actors who surround them, including both political operatives who are considering whether to serve the demagogue, and fellow politicians, who are considering whether to ally with him. From the perspective of both of these kinds of political actors, it may appear as if integrity’s dictates are indeterminate. Should one wash one’s hands clean of the demagogue in the name of personal integrity, or collaborate with him to limit the threats he poses to the polity’s collective integrity? Taking up the cases of Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the chapter shows how the integrity framework can offer a systematic solution to this problem.

scholarly journals "Wolfenstein II" and MAGA as fandom

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Miller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Donald Trump

The current political discourse in the United States is generally understood through the framework of partisanship, but this framework alone is insufficient to encompass all forms of political engagement. An analysis of the discourse around the Bethesda Softworks video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017) reveals that the outraged discourse around the references to the current political climate in America by right-wing groups is best understood through a framework of fandom. From this perspective, the discourse around the game is understood as an expression of fandom for President Donald Trump as an individual rather than of a persistent political identity or ideology. As fans, Trump supporters are guided in the political engagement by Trump's pledge to make America great again (MAGA).

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