The Lincoln Project and the Conservative Aesthetic

This election season, a rogue band of Republican Party operatives has attracted considerable media attention, and the Twitter wrath of President Trump, with a series of negative advertisements attacking the incumbent. The Lincoln Project strategy demonstrates how social and cultural conservatives ar...

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Autor principal: Young, Dannagal G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Symposium: The 2020 U.S. Elections
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7595049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33144748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00537-9
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description This election season, a rogue band of Republican Party operatives has attracted considerable media attention, and the Twitter wrath of President Trump, with a series of negative advertisements attacking the incumbent. The Lincoln Project strategy demonstrates how social and cultural conservatives are attracted to a particular aesthetic, prompted by their psychological attraction to rhetorical forms that are threat-oriented, clear, efficient, hyperbolic, emotional, and authoritative.
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spelling pubmed-75950492020-10-30 The Lincoln Project and the Conservative Aesthetic Young, Dannagal G. Society Symposium: The 2020 U.S. Elections This election season, a rogue band of Republican Party operatives has attracted considerable media attention, and the Twitter wrath of President Trump, with a series of negative advertisements attacking the incumbent. The Lincoln Project strategy demonstrates how social and cultural conservatives are attracted to a particular aesthetic, prompted by their psychological attraction to rhetorical forms that are threat-oriented, clear, efficient, hyperbolic, emotional, and authoritative. Springer US 2020-10-29 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7595049/ /pubmed/33144748 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00537-9 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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