A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath

Date: 2020-11-04T17:31:00-05:00
Author: Tom Nichols @theatlantic

Description: America will have to contend with that fact.
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Source: theatlantic.com
Original article URL: [www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/1... ]

Propaganda techniques used in this aricle

# Propaganda Technique Quote Source
1 If Trump were to maintain power, our child-king would be unfettered by bothersome laws and institutions. theatlantic.com
2 The United States would begin its last days as a democracy, finally stepping over the ledge into authoritarianism. theatlantic.com
3 Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they wanted more of it. theatlantic.com
4 A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath theatlantic.com
5 Now, by picking him again, those voters are showing that they are just like him: angry, spoiled, racially resentful, aggrieved, and willing to die rather than ever admit that they were wrong. theatlantic.com
6 Trump voters don’t care about policy. They didn’t care about it in 2016, and they don’t care about it now. theatlantic.com
7 The party of national security, fiscal austerity, and personal responsibility supports a president who is in the pocket of the Russians, has exploded the national deficit, and refuses to take responsibility for anything. theatlantic.com