Social Movements In Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign

Social movements are not spontaneous events, and they must build towards their goals over time on a series of phases and preconditions. Successful social movements rely on a number of micro and macro factors including efficient organizational structures, the ability to mobilize human and material resources, as well as effective leadership and rapid diffusion of ideas. As it will be shown, the presence of mobilizing structures, movement frames as well as suitable political opportunities combined with reactionary incentives during the Civil Rights Movement helped culminate both short and long term societal changes.

The authors, Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa chose disciplines with the background in communications, sociology, and public affairs. These three disciplines are not only present in this article but also represent the issue as a whole. Social media reflects communication, society’s behavior portrays sociology, and the political viewpoints symbolize public affairs. Key concepts like ethnography, police brutality, social media, and activism are all exercised in the article to help determine if a hashtag could become a field site. Research methods such as communication research and content analysis are evident throughout the article. For example, the article discusses a numerical description by stating, “during the initial week of protests, over 3.6 million posts appeared on Twitter documenting and reflecting on the emerging details surrounding Michael Brown’s death” (Bonilla & Rosa 2015). The article does not directly state any key thinkers nor key theories but Black Lives Matter founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi all encourage the content of the article and the supported sources.

Considering the pre-rational nature of religious affiliation for many Americans, then, we can see how Bush's rhetoric concerning values and faith was not unlike propaganda, which seeks to short circuit rational thought in order to illicit some desired response from the audience. By only discussing values on the most superficial level, Bush was able to use people's faith to gain their support, when after further debate and consideration they may have found that they did not agree with his stance.

Social movements typically concern institutions that serve explicit and implicit purposes, including “perpetuation of cultural norms, value maintenance, policy making, and enforcement of statutes and doctrines”. The significance of this is that institutions frame situations to their benefit by definitions and interpretations. Protesters challenge this definitional authority by offering counter frames that portray institutions negatively. In attempt to sustain power, credibility, and legitimacy, institutions will implement four strategies when responding to these challenges: evasion, counter-persuasion, coercive persuasion, and adjustment. For example, during the Selma to Montgomery marches law enforcement institutions strategically used the evasion strategy in order to place a frame that the social movements do not exist and that their preexisting laws were constitutional. During this time the government and media did not acknowledge black Americans as equals let alone citizens of the United States. Thus, were seen as unworthy of institutional response. The institutional strategy, counter-persuasion, deals with the notion of “challenge a social movement’s vision of reality and attempt to discredit its leaders, members, and demands”. During the Selma to Montgomery marches, ideas were framed as “ill advised, poorly informed, and lacking merit”. This then relates to the third strategy, coercive persuasion, where there was an “enhancing of fear appeals or a method to resist change due to the appeal to basic fear”. Coercive persuasion is formed in order to persuade target audiences that force will follow non-compliance. For example, law enforcement institutions of the Selma to Montgomery marches threatened protesters through fear that if they participated in any uncivil uproar that they would be incarcerated or

Thank you Dean Christy Hanson, the Institute for Global Citizenship, planning committee, fellow panelists, and distinguished guest Malcolm Gladwell for coming together for the 2014 International Round Table. A panel to discuss the grounding roots of ‘effective revolutions’ in no way feels revolutionary at Macalester. As an institution founded on a pillar of civic engagement, we protest, we gather and we surrender ourselves, our time and our labor to causes that we support. But at Macalester it often seems we are asked what we do, instead of why we do it. This ‘why’ question, however, is essential in the quest for understanding how revolutions start and what forces motivate communities into action. Today, we millennials extend arms or should I say “likes” to support our causes through social media. We join Facebook events, retweet 140 character blurbs from our favorite politicians and ‘tumble’ our time away reading the latest blog posts of like-minded friends. But do these social interactions produce the momentum and manpower to produce revolutions similar to a civil rights movement that engulfed the southern United States for nearly a decade?

Although indicators of positive change show increased awareness from participation in the march, racism and support of repression is not only remaining but arguably growing among certain parts of the public. No recent event exemplifies this better than the election of Republican candidate Donald Trump in the 2016 American election.

What determines a movement? Malcolm Gladwell defines what pushes a movement to make a difference. He analyzes the concept of “strong ties” and “weak ties” and how these relationships affect an individual’s willpower and determination to help a cause. Gregory Orr puts these ideas into context in his memoir, “Return to Hayneville”, in which he recounts his experience and involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Malcolm Gladwell’s “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, focuses, in particular, on the civil rights movement concentrates to the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. Gladwell’s ideas and opinions of social and political emancipations are given a real world setting, as

This reading was about social movements, how they are started and why, which is ultimately, to bring about important social changes. This chapter also talks about the important social movements which took place in America, from the women's suffragette movement, to the civil rights movement, to the legalization of same sex marriage and the LGBTQ movement. These chapters also defined social movements as “collective challenges, based on common purposes and social solidarities, in sustained interaction with elites, opponents, and authorities”. These two beginning chapters also delve into what is to be expected later on in the book. These first two chapters made me realize just how many different social movements there are, whether in the past

Social movements shed light to social issues present in communities and harvest social change in political, religious, educational, health, government, and other institutional matters. Social movements give individuals a clear outlet to concerns about the rights and well-being of themselves and others, mostly through public protest and conversation, in order to promote social justice and democracy. Throughout history, humans naturally ended up starting movements to simply improve their way of life and movements have continually aided in a remarkable change in communities. In the essay “From Civil Rights to Megachurches,” Charles Duhigg explains the three critical steps that initiative successful social movements. Social movements must

In this paper, I outline Noel and Judis and display how they are in disagreement as to the ideologically coherent nature of Trump’s supporters and his campaign. The ideology of the candidate, their campaign, and the ideology of their supporters are not mutually exclusive. Donald Trump could be ideologically incoherent as a person, which I am not arguing, but his campaign and supporters that drove him to get elected were ideologically coherent. In this paper, I argue that Donald Trump’s campaign and his [Middle American Radical] supporters are ideologically coherent under the mantra of an anti-establishment ideology.

In the last decade or a half, it is seen that collective action has become easier due to technological and social advancements, which has significantly helped grass-root movements gain power and influence in the political sphere. The ability of movements to raise money, gather large support, enter competitive political elections and impact party support and agenda, has made them very influential and appealing to political parties. Social movements are able to influence political parties by having a strong support base and source of funding to keep the movement going, having goals that a party can associate with and incorporate those goals into the party’s agendas. It is also seen that social movements gain significant influence over parties

Social movements come about as people of small groups which are loosely connected are united by a single purpose. Unlike interest groups who are often bureaucratic, social movements are loosely organized. Protests are often done to express people’s dissent or support on a certain issue or advocacy. However, not all social movements are able to thrive since their existence relies on the existence of a certain event or issue. Some social movements also decline since they succeeded, especially in movements with very specific goals. For others, movements are also at risk of repression and co-optation from the government, especially in non-democratic countries.

Violent protests create negative impacts on movements through the vast media coverage which then can hinder that movement’s positive growth and influence on its community. Protest that turn violent cause citizens lose their right to assemble and are injecting negative connotations to their purpose. In the United States, where the idea of advocating for individual rights and representation of a community has pushed it to strive for a proactive democracy, peaceful protests are widely encouraged in order to promote and protect the health, prosperity, and safety of American

Propaganda is an intense word, but one that accurately identifies the dangerous situation Americans have been put in by the Trump administration. Our president Donald Trump and his top appointments are propagandists who use their disobedient nature to influence a substantial portion of American citizens. Since Mr. Trump is a master at propaganda, his way with words is largely propelling his current popularity. So, here is my analysis of the different types of propaganda and some examples of Mr. Trump’s use of them in this speech.

Charting social movement’s birth and death is nearly impossible because of how unpredictable they can be. Detecting the cycles of a social movement is more efficient, for it remains consistent throughout all type of groups. There are five stages of a social movement: genesis, social unrest, enthusiastic mobilization, maintenance, and termination. Genesis consist of pre-existing conditions that flower into more noticeable issues within the media. This stage is usually subtle and slow, but triggering incidence propel social movements into the second stage, social unrest.