Trump as a Caring Leader? (3B)
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted me to delve deeper into care ethics. I wanted to understand the extent to which our society was a caring society and if we as a nation could become a more caring country. Consequently, I started this series of blog posts. More basic, I started this blog to help me determine how and why Donald Trump was elected president. Also, I wanted to understand how he would perform as a leader, how he would govern our country. I now turn to this point by asking how Gabriel’s paper may be applicable to Trump.
It is impossible for me to see Trump as a caring leader.… Read the rest
COVID-19: “A Blessing from God”
President Trump on Wednesday, October 7 released a direct-to-camera video address to the nation in which he called getting the coronavirus “a blessing from God.” His comment coincided with my reading a paper by Ceri Hughes. Hughes analyzed 175 Trump speeches and about 30,000 Trump tweets for use of religious language. Hughes surprised me when I learned that his earlier research determined that Trump used both general religious terms and “God terms” at a significantly higher rate than all his predecessors from and including Franklin Roosevelt.
In his current paper, Hughes suggests that “Trump appears to use religious language in a strategic manner in two central ways.… Read the rest
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