RT Book
T1 Hate speech and political violence: far-right rhetoric from the Tea Party to the insurrection
A1 Nacos, Brigitte L. 1936-
A2 Bloch-Elkon, Yaeli
A2 Shapiro, Robert Y. 1953-
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1858356849
AB "How did the United States of America, the oldest continuous democracy, arrive at January 6, 2021? Following years of rising partisan conflict, the mass media's amplification of the Tea Party movement and their embrace of anti-Obama conspiracy theories were crucial building blocks in the rise of Donald Trump. In 2019, President Trump told an interviewer, "The Tea Party was a very important event in the history of our country...The Tea Party still exists-except now it is called Make America Great Again." As Trump became the leader of what was, in effect, a merging of the Tea Party and Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, his aggressive rhetoric and outright hate speech helped to increase the existing political divisions to hyper-polarization. This book argues that American political communication began a continuous toxic spin after the founding of the Tea Party merely a month after Barack Obama was inaugurated. It argues that the interconnectivity of political communication facilitated and even promoted the Tea Party during its formative first years along with anti-Obama conspiracy theories that were embraced by its supporters. In the early stage of Tea Party, the movement's activists organized mass protest rallies, often with the assistance and participation of FOX News political talk show hosts, who highlighted the anti-Obama and anti-Washington outrage of rank-and-file members and supporters. "Contemporary politics is primarily media politics," and this book argues that Tea Partiers and anti-Obama conspiracy theorists exploited the off-line and online mass media power-making space and paved the way for Donald Trump's unorthodox candidacy and presidency. Through textual analysis of thousands of tweets, speeches, and public opinion data, the authors demonstrate how the inflammatory rhetoric of the Tea Party and Trump era expanded the earlier partisan and demographic divisions in the United States into a hyper-polarized conflict that sometimes led to real-world violence"--
CN JA85.2.U6
SN 9780231214346
SN 9780231214353
K1 Obama, Barack
K1 Trump, Donald : 1946- : Language
K1 Communication in politics : United States
K1 POLITICAL oratory : United States
K1 Hate Speech : United States
K1 Tea Party movement
K1 Political Violence : United States
K1 Conspiracy Theories : United States
K1 Mass Media : Political aspects : United States
K1 Social Media : Political aspects : United States
K1 United States : Politics and government : 2009-2017
K1 United States : Politics and government : 2017-2021
K1 USA : Hassrede : Massenkommunikation : Politische Kommunikation : Tea-Party-Bewegung