People, Personas, and Politics 14 – Dog Whistles 1
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/02
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It’s like the way things in America – I don’t know about other Western countries, North America and Western Europe, but I do notice the terminology changed a bit. So…
Rick Rosner: Well, they talk about dog whistles.
SDJ: …No, but almost. Dog whistles in a way, but it is a shift, so then a shift in dog whistles, if you may.
RR: America’s tolerance for religiosity in politics—Americans became more tolerant of religion in politics from 1980 on. You talked about Trump and the next election, and there are things that could happen with Trump. Trump is someone that doesn’t have strongly held political views except around jobs, taxes, tariffs, and trade.
He may find some flexibility in policy that would be helpful to the country. The defeat of Trumpcare is actually helpful to the country. He may abandon strictly Republican principles. That may alright. He may more belligerent and more isolated, and that would be bad. And his thought processes may decay.
The man is 70. He is borderline obese. He doesn’t seem to eat very healthily. His dad – though he lived into his 90s, I think – had Alzheimer’s for years when he died. Trump’s thinking could become compromised. People love to diagnose him psychologically from afar. But he does seem to have some tendencies that allow him to be diagnosed from afar by experts and non-experts as having some kind of mental illness.
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