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Summary Exercise

Exploring the meteoric rise of Donald Trump in his campaign for the presidency of the United States, it is important to examine how it came to be that something that once seemed like a joke or publicity stunt, has now turned into a full fledged viable presidential campaign. For my exploration of this topic, I will be using an article from Google Scholar. I will take a look at how Donald Trump was able to rise amongst Republicans, and how he was able to make a connection through some very questionable tactics that tapped into the paranoia of voters. His rise in the polls has not only surprised many, but has also divided the party.

When Donald Trump first announced his run for presidency, a lot of people were skeptical. Some thought that maybe it was a ploy for another reality show, or to help boost ratings for the pending new season of The Apprentice. He made outlandish remarks that almost no one else would be able to get away with, for which the only result was growth in support. What once was dismissed as a joke is now a very real possibility; the possibility that Donald Trump could very well go on to be the Republican nominee, and eventually president of the United States.

A lot of what has helped drive the Trump campaign forward is paranoia amongst voters. There is uncertainty of the future, there is uncertainty about how the country has been run in the past 8 years, and there is also uncertainty about those that are currently in office as well as career politicians. People are looking for something different, and they think that they have found it in Donald Trump. He doesn’t look, walk, or talk like anything that they have seen before, and that for many voters, makes him the right candidate.

This source has helped my understanding of my research topic by giving new insight into why the unacceptable is now acceptable, and why it seems like support keeps growing no matter what poisonous sexist, racist, classist rant is spewed by Donald Trump.

References

Pruessen, Ron (2016) The 2016 election is seeing the return of the ‘paranoid style’ in American politics. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (25 Feb 2016) Blog Entry.