In the final debate with Hillary Clinton on Oct. 19, 2016, Chris Wallace of Fox News pressed Trump to announce that he would “absolutely accept the result of this election.” Trump’s answer:
"I will look at it at the time. I’m not looking at anything now. I’ll look at it at the time. What I’ve seen — what I’ve seen is so bad. First of all, the media is so dishonest and so corrupt, and the pile-on is so amazing."
“[Hillary Clinton] shouldn’t be allowed to run. It’s crooked — she’s, she’s guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run.”
-https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/trump-leave-white-house.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
This is what I had in mind in the first excerpted post this morning. Trump's candidacy and presidency has been a "legitimization crisis" for democracy here, and anywhere. Trump has always delegitimized any and all opposition.
Bart Bonikowski, a professor of sociology at Harvard, reiterated the importance of norm violation in Trump’s governing strategy:
"It signals to Trump’s (overwhelmingly white) supporters that he’s willing to represent them at any cost, even that of liberal democracy itself."
Bonikowski contended that while
"the substance of Trumpism is ethnonationalist, its form is authoritarian. Like other aspiring autocrats, such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or Poland’s Jarosław Kaczyński, Trump seeks to delegitimize his opposition as “enemies of the people” in order to mobilize his base and maintain a stranglehold on power.
(Rooski, my real name Benyamin Harriskowski.)
Whether perpetrated by “journalists, independent judges, career civil servants, or legislators,” Bonikowski wrote, “any attempt at checking his power is seen as a betrayal of him, his supporters, and ultimately, the nation.”
"I will look at it at the time. I’m not looking at anything now. I’ll look at it at the time. What I’ve seen — what I’ve seen is so bad. First of all, the media is so dishonest and so corrupt, and the pile-on is so amazing."
“[Hillary Clinton] shouldn’t be allowed to run. It’s crooked — she’s, she’s guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run.”
-https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/trump-leave-white-house.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
This is what I had in mind in the first excerpted post this morning. Trump's candidacy and presidency has been a "legitimization crisis" for democracy here, and anywhere. Trump has always delegitimized any and all opposition.
Bart Bonikowski, a professor of sociology at Harvard, reiterated the importance of norm violation in Trump’s governing strategy:
"It signals to Trump’s (overwhelmingly white) supporters that he’s willing to represent them at any cost, even that of liberal democracy itself."
Bonikowski contended that while
"the substance of Trumpism is ethnonationalist, its form is authoritarian. Like other aspiring autocrats, such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or Poland’s Jarosław Kaczyński, Trump seeks to delegitimize his opposition as “enemies of the people” in order to mobilize his base and maintain a stranglehold on power.
(Rooski, my real name Benyamin Harriskowski.)
Whether perpetrated by “journalists, independent judges, career civil servants, or legislators,” Bonikowski wrote, “any attempt at checking his power is seen as a betrayal of him, his supporters, and ultimately, the nation.”
