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Title: The Neoconservative Strategy and Trump's Victory: A Brazilian Perspective
Description: Explore how Brazilian media and politics observed and influenced the changes in Brazil's foreign policy under the Temer government in the context of the 2016 US presidential election. Delve into the impact of pro-Hillary American media on Brazilian press coverage, the reasons behind Trump's victory, the dynamics of voter behavior, and the rise of neoconservative strategies within the electoral framework.
Tags: Brazilian media Brazilian politics foreign policy Trump's victory US election neoconservative strategy voter behavior media influence political dynamics election analysis
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THE RESISTABLE RISE OF DONALD TRUMP Reginaldo C. Moraes" This article is a collection of the author's previous contributions in his weekly column of Jornal da Unicamp.The argument is organized as it...
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Confusion of the following moment corresponded to the certainty and security that reigned previously. It is worth listing some of the myths and inaccuracies surrounding assessments of the Republican c...
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“Dog whistle politics” refers to conquering hearts and minds through coded and diversionist signs so to legitimize unequal policies, such as racism, sexism and “values politics”. 1. Professor at Campi...
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During the 2000s, these institutions developed a kind of neoconservative church, Fox News, a very relevant channel to shape the country’s sentimental and ideological agendas. One of the main advantage...
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Local elections have an average of 20% to 30% of participation and more than 70% of abstention. Data indicates clearly that lower income people, the youth and ethnic minorities have the largest absten...
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One must also know who votes and who gives up voting under special circumstances. A largely difused Pew Research poll survey asked and answered the following question: “Who helped the most to elect Tr...
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The heart of America’s industry, the Manufacture Belt became the “Rust Belt”. Hence, job losses and destruction of communities led several angry blue-collar workers to move from Democratic Party to Tr...
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For example, there are about seventeen million small business owners, who do not have college degree. By 2016, a National Small Business Association survey showed that 86% of small enrepreneurs were w...
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After all, 306 revista tempo do mundo | rtm | v. 5 | n. 1 | jan. 2019 during recent decades, something like 40% of union members and their families have voted for the Republican party and not for the...
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He clearly gave up campaigning in some places since it no longer mattered losing by a 70-to-30 or 60-to-40-vote difference in states such as California, he must have considered. Whatever the outcome, ...
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It could “customize” the candidate according to the elector profiles. This was a more efficient survey than any conventional one — faster, cheaper, produced with the authorization and even with the pa...
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They were the “it makes no difference vote”. Because in doing that, too, Trump’s campaign did The Resistable Rise of Donald Trump 307 “the right thing”. His strategists followed a pragmatic reasoning...
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They had reasons not to want to see the Democrats as their representatives. Hillary’s e-mails and conversations leaked on the eve of the election only fueled the pre-existing bonfire. All this seems t...
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Yes, the economy does cause dramatic situations. However their effects are not necessarily “economic” as well. The strength of material conditions ... and of expectations Recently, at a seminar in In...
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A country is not only composed by its advancing and enriching parts, but it also includes — and especially excludes — those who fall behind. Especially because many of those who advance do so at the e...
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On the eve of the elections, some posts and talks of Hillary were leaked, showing her predilection for these areas (mainly for the banks). There were compromising phrases that sounded something like t...
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Now, even before taking office, the elected government in 2018 shows similar inclinations. But there are some differences, perhaps resulting from different alignments in the heart of the empire. Polit...
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During the American election campaign, the Brazilian government and the mainstream press (dominated by six families in Brazil) “cheered” for Hillary in an evident and confident manner. This support wa...
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Both news programs and “opinion columns” always showed (before the election and afterwards) a remarkable exercise of confusion between desire and reality. A reporter for the Globo network, the country...
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Available in: <https://twitter.com/giocondabrasil/status/789235076668264448>. 310 revista tempo do mundo | rtm | v. 5 | n. 1 | jan. 2019 University. After framing Trump in the show-business dimension...
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Mocking Trump’s eccentric proposals, Troyjo defended the Democratic candidate in relation to the dramas of American domestic politics. It would bring, for example, “a denser message on gun control”, s...
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What is in evidence is not only Trump Which could be the motivations among Brazilian authorities, analysts and journalists, to soften the electoral duel with so little support on evidence? First, we ...
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The same phenomenon was observed during the dispute between Al Gore and Bush Jr. at the beginning of the millennium. The fact that the Brazilian media doubting the American electoral system shows inco...
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SUMMARY Trump’s election shows a conservative advance, but not exactly electoral gains to this agenda. Electoral gains were relative since the Republican electorate, after all, did not change much fr...
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312 revista tempo do mundo | rtm | v. 5 | n. 1 | jan. 2019 states, there was a voter-annulment industry based on claims to combat electoral frauds, which avoided registration of potential inconvenien...
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This well-financed and organized conservative machine cornered the niche-thematic center-left (unable to show a nation-wide project) and was able to achieve electoral victory. Trump’s victory in 2016 ...
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At that time, several analysts highlighted important elements, such as his weak coalition, an emerging “white working class” and their relationship with the right-wing candidates in the mid-west and t...
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After all, Trump’s campaign had a peculiarity: it was relatively cheap. Trump raised less than Hillary. This repeated, on a larger scale, what had happened on the last election. Obama had always raise...
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In fact, there are also costs of political campaigns outside of the usual campaign period and these resources are spent in different ways. Numbers compiled by Open Secrets® show a steady increase in t...
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The election business is increasingly speculative and dominated by sophisticated professionals and techniques. It has progressively become a fight for large animals. Ironically, the little animals hav...
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Perhaps the great move of the far-right is to create two disputes: one real, but almost invisible, and another fussy, but not very effective. REFERENCES BRITTANY, S. Who helped Trump most in the 2016 ...
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The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2018. Disopnivel em: <https://www.theatlantic.com/ science/archive/2018/04/existential-anxiety-not-poverty-motivates-trump- support/558674/>. MAYER, J. Dark money: the hidden his...
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Donald Trump’s voters and the decline of American manufacturing. Issues in Science and Technology, v. 32, n. 4, 2016. BROWNSTEIN, R. The white working class: the most pessimistic group in America. The...
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Businers Insider, 13 Mar. 2018. Disponivel em: <https://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-says-trump- won-backwards-states-in-2016-2018-3>. DAVIS, M. Reflections on the election. The Rag Blog, 1...
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7 pundits who spread the myth of Trump’s working-class voter base, AlterNet, 11 July 2017. Disponivel em: <https://www.alternet. org/2017/07/7-pundits-who-spread-myth-trumps-working-class-voter-base/>...
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Where Donald Trump’s support really comes from. The Economist, 10 July 2018.