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Trump’s 4th of July Speech Strategy: Demonize Your Opposition to Bolster Polls

With his attempted re-appropriation of American values and American history, Trump’s Fourth of July speech can be seen as a dangerous embrace of fascist rhetoric. By identifying Trump’s supporters as “American” and his critics as “liars,” “violent mobs,” “totalitarians” the speech effectively brands not just political opponents, but any critically-thinking individual (such as teachers), who does not share his opinions, as un-American, unpatriotic, and, ultimately, “de facto” enemy of the state.

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2020: Dems’ Death Wish a Perfect Storm for Trump’s Reelection

In the coming weeks and months, political scenarios abound that may hurt the Democrats and favor Trump and the Republicans. Trump may also profit from a Democratic Death Wish. Above all, the wish is manifest in too many Democratic potential candidates... Trump has also used the “Bully Pulpit” to his advantage. He desires a second term so much that to get it he may plunge the United States into another hopeless war—against North Korea or now much more immediately, against Iran.

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Great Again? The United States Between Reckless Ambitions and Relative Decline

This article focuses on one of the major deficits of American power: the lack of historical depth, that is, the idea that a solution that worked within a specific historical context can be reapplied in any other circumstance and produce the same outcomes. The relative decline of the country (that is, its growth rate being inferior to that of the rest of the world) is causing an entire series of policies adopted in the past to be no longer feasible and poses, if anything, the necessity to make America – in its ambitions, in its spending, in its view of the world – “smaller” than before

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RFK and the “Mysterious” End of Kennedy’s Populism

Fifty years ago, on an important night for the Democratic primaries, candidate Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the former President, JFK, died in Los Angeles. RFK understood right away that, more than Communism, it was the Mafia and its relationship with the establishment that was the enemy within that had to be examined. And if he and his brother had not been killed, perhaps today we would give new meaning to the word “populism”

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