: dog whistle - ambiguous messaging used to stoke racial fear and anxiety and/or to covertly signal allegiance to certain subgroups of an audience. : "Make America Great Again" could be signaling support for Whites who have felt a loss of status as other groups have become more empowered.[34]
: false claim - a statement that is directly contradicted by fact and can be easily proven untrue. : Historical data actually shows that the stock market has risen more under Democratic than Republican presidencies.[1]
: demonizing the press - characterizing the press as the enemy, politically motivated, and dishonest.
: post hoc - proclaiming that because something occurred after X, it was caused by X, when no causal relationship at all may exist. : Taking credit for the low unemployment rate after 10 months, when the rate had been falling for 7 consecutive years, before he took office.[6]
: false equivalency - implying that two things are essentially the same, when they only have anecdotal similarities. : Between quarterly GDP growth, which hit 3%, and annual GDP growth, which has still never hit 3%.[7]
: virtue words - using words that are attractive to the value system of the target audience. : pro family, pro police, pro worker, pro America.
: scapegoating - placing unmerited blame on a person or group to channel societal resentment and frustration towards a common adversary or powerless victim. : Immigrants (illegal and otherwise).
: demonizing - characterizing a group or those who support an opposing viewpoint as threatening, immoral, or less than human. : Those that have immigrated to the U.S. via chain migration.
: appeal to tradition - suggesting that moving away from or abandoning long-standing practice could have detrimental or even dangerous implications. : Of going back to honoring the Christian faith and traditions in public spaces.
: demonizing - characterizing a group or those who support an opposing viewpoint as threatening, immoral, or less than human. : Illegal aliens.
: virtue words - using words that are attractive to the value system of the target audience. : tough, strong, strong, strengthening.
: appeal to pity - portraying oneself as a victim in order to gain sympathy and manufacture justification for attacking your opponents.
: honor by association - defending or championing cultural sacred cows, which transfers the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige associated with those symbols. : The national anthem.
: honor by association - defending or championing cultural sacred cows, which transfers the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige associated with those symbols. : God
: honor by association - defending or championing cultural sacred cows, which transfers the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige associated with those symbols. : The national anthem, the military, the flag, the constitution.
: glittering generalities - vague words or phrases used to evoke positive emotional appeal, without presenting supporting information or reason. : About powerful forces and very bad, evil people, who know who they are, and who'll do anything, but we're stopping them, and we're seeing that right now, (when it's unclear who they are, what they're doing, how we're stopping them, and what we're seeing right now).
: poisoning the well - discrediting your opponent to an audience in advance, in order to encourage dismissing any future claims or accusations they may make against you. : Trump preemptively dismisses any current or future negative polling data for him as nothing more than biased news outlets pursuing their own agendas.
: appeal to pity - portraying oneself as a victim in order to gain sympathy and manufacture justification for attacking your opponents.
: common folk - establishing a connection with an audience based on being just like one of them and being able to empathize with their concerns.
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appeal to tradition: common folk: demonizing: dog whistle: false equivalency: glittering generalities: honor by association: poisoning the well: scapegoating: virtue words: