CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT: IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANTAGONISM
The aim of this article is to capture the atmosphere of civil rights advocacy in the United States during the first year of Donald Trump’s rule, in order to verify the conceptions and types of mobilization of law supported by different political and social forces. To do so, the survey analyzed a tot...
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| description | The aim of this article is to capture the atmosphere of civil rights advocacy in the United States during the first year of Donald Trump’s rule, in order to verify the conceptions and types of mobilization of law supported by different political and social forces. To do so, the survey analyzed a total of one thousand materials extracted from two major newspapers in the country: The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The analysis covered daily news, editorials, open editorials, readers’ letters, interviews, cultural critiques, special sections, and even obituaries. The results obtained showed strong political polarization. On the one hand, progressives have united around expected civil rights conceptions, embracing the need for social and identity politics. Politically isolated, they were unable to move forward with propositional policies of expansion or creation of new rights, just trying to deny or oppose Trump’s policies. And on the other hand, conservatives and classical liberals came together in a kind of “legal engineering,” marrying the classic liberal discourse with conservative rights-based policies and conceptions, updating in a rather retrograde way the civil rights meanings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f597cbe73bd4f388c802daa8828abb32022-12-22T03:31:31ZengInstituto de Pesquisa Econômica AplicadaRevista Tempo do Mundo2176-70252675-150X2019-10-015167106https://doi.org/10.38116/rtmv5n1art3CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT: IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANTAGONISMCelly Cook Inatomi0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7473-466XINCT-INEUThe aim of this article is to capture the atmosphere of civil rights advocacy in the United States during the first year of Donald Trump’s rule, in order to verify the conceptions and types of mobilization of law supported by different political and social forces. To do so, the survey analyzed a total of one thousand materials extracted from two major newspapers in the country: The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The analysis covered daily news, editorials, open editorials, readers’ letters, interviews, cultural critiques, special sections, and even obituaries. The results obtained showed strong political polarization. On the one hand, progressives have united around expected civil rights conceptions, embracing the need for social and identity politics. Politically isolated, they were unable to move forward with propositional policies of expansion or creation of new rights, just trying to deny or oppose Trump’s policies. And on the other hand, conservatives and classical liberals came together in a kind of “legal engineering,” marrying the classic liberal discourse with conservative rights-based policies and conceptions, updating in a rather retrograde way the civil rights meanings.https://www.ipea.gov.br/revistas/index.php/rtm/article/view/140/221united statescivil rightspolitics of rightsmobilization of law |
| spellingShingle | Celly Cook Inatomi CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT: IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANTAGONISM Revista Tempo do Mundo united states civil rights politics of rights mobilization of law |
| title | CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT: IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANTAGONISM |
| title_full | CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT: IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANTAGONISM |
| title_fullStr | CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT: IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANTAGONISM |
| title_full_unstemmed | CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT: IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANTAGONISM |
| title_short | CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE TRUMP GOVERNMENT: IMPRESSIONS OF AN ANTAGONISM |
| title_sort | civil rights and the trump government impressions of an antagonism |
| topic | united states civil rights politics of rights mobilization of law |
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