
Episode 116: Charles Zug - Demagogues in American Politics
The Political Theory Review
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Is This Really Good for the Constitution?
In 1937, Roosevelt used demagogic rhetoric to try to discredit the court that had been sinking his legislative project. He backed it up with a reasoned diagnosis of why what the court was doing was bad for the country. Trump doesn't really do that; he trades almost exclusively on the currency of allegation in Ueno. The scenario I lay out in that chapter is, look, if you had had a different person than there, I don't know.
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