Title: The Bully in the Pulpit: Donald Trump's Leadership of Public Opinion
Abstract: Donald Trump came to office with more experience as a self-promoter and public personality than any previous chief executive. He is undeniably skilled at dominating the news. If such skills were critical for leading the public, we should have found him successfully doing so, especially on policies that should not have been difficult sells to the American people. What Ie found instead was a president who consistently failed to gain the public’s backing for either his policies or his own handling of them. Indeed, he seemed to turn the public in the opposite direction. He made an unpopular health care policy popular and the health care policies he backed unpopular. Similarly, in the face of a general desire to control our borders and protect the country from terrorists, Trump managed to alienate the public from his immigration policies. At the same time, he made a tax cut for nearly all taxpayers and businesses unpopular.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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