Saturday, 16 February 2019

Study: Trump’s bravado isn’t an anomaly, it’s the culmination of a century-long political trend


To outsiders, President Trump’s brazen speech and unconventional style may make him seem like an outlier, the sum of leftover parts assembled by a pissed-off populace. But for one group of researchers, Trump’s idiosyncrasies aren’t so much a departure from societal norms as they are a continuation of a trend dating back more than a century. As a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explains, Trump is actually the culmination of a century-plus long trend in Presidential communication. Researchers came to this conclusion by studying campaign speeches and those that followed, relying on text…

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http://bit.ly/2DMTG9b Bryan Clark February 15, 2019 at 06:00PM

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