A review by da_bos
Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump by Jennifer Mercieca

4.0

Interesting take on the challenge to democracy posed by Donald Trump. Focusing on his speeches, especially at his rallies, during the 2016 presidential campaign, Mercieca outlines how there was most certainly a method to the campaign’s apparent madness. The study is definitely a very academic study, and beyond the well-written summaries of the argument and its political implications in the introductory and concluding chapters, most readers who are no rhetoricians or linguists may find the book a bit exhausting (and perhaps depressing, too).