{"id":38583,"date":"2016-04-19T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=38583"},"modified":"2016-04-19T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:57:17","slug":"brock-prof-offers-advice-for-u-s-campaign-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/04\/brock-prof-offers-advice-for-u-s-campaign-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock prof offers advice for U.S. campaign speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the day of the New York primaries, Brock University political scientist Stefan Dolgert has some interesting advice for those running against Republican party candidate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Come up with a better enemy-and-victim story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnemy and victimization narratives are politically effective, even if they\u2019re not actually true,\u201d Dolgert says of Trump\u2019s claims that various ethnic and religious groups cause problems for the wider American public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s less important for progressives to point out the problems or the falsities with the other side\u2019s narratives,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more important for progressives to construct a different narrative of victimization,\u201d says Dolgert, adding that Democratic party candidate Bernie Sanders has done this by pointing to big banks wreaking havoc with the American economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t radically change the voters\u2019 perspectives; what you can do is motivate them to come over to you if you give them a better story about why they\u2019re suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dolgert\u2019s study \u2014 <em>The Praise of Ressentiment: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Donald Trump <\/em>\u2014 will be published in a political science journal later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day of the New York primaries, Brock University political scientist Stefan Dolgert has some interesting advice for those running against Republican party candidate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":20436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38585,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38583\/revisions\/38585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}