{"id":616,"date":"2019-09-11T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=616"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:10:13","slug":"crooked-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/11\/crooked-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading Dr. Bezio’s paper about the similarities between Shakespeare’s\u00a0Richard III\u00a0<\/em>and Donald Trump’s presidency, I was left with a feeling of discomfort. How could two time periods over 400 years apart be so analogous? It was almost scary how Shakespeare’s play, based off of real events, and Trump’s actions lined up so well in terms of a chronological order. It was also really interesting to see how long toxic leadership has been around, and recognized for what it is. Bezio refers to the clich\u00e9 that “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” My first time reading that clich\u00e9, I only thought of Trump not learning from the failed history of toxic charismatics. However, second time around I realized that the United States also did not learn from history, as Donald Trump was elected by the people. Did the people not recognize that he was a toxic charismatic due to his manipulative tactics, or did they just not care?<\/p>\n

In Bezio’s paper and during our class discussion, we talked about why charismatic leaders can be so supported. Charismatics act as “emotional actors,” meaning that they read their audiences to decide how they should lead. In Bezio’s words, charismatics “confirm what their followers ‘know’ to be true.” In class we talked about how everyone thinks that what they think is right, and if their opinions change, their new opinions are right. Trump was able to gain so much popularity because he figured out what people believed, and fed those thoughts back. I knew that Trump was a toxic charismatic, but I didn’t even realize how many actions he had used to gain support until comparing him to Richard\u00a0III.<\/p>\n

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After reading Dr. Bezio’s paper about the similarities between Shakespeare’s\u00a0Richard III\u00a0and Donald Trump’s presidency, I was left with a feeling of discomfort. How could two…<\/p>\n

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