Trump's Border Wall Rhetoric

Lauren StewartFollow

Document Type

Panel Presentation

Start Date

18-4-2019 3:30 PM

End Date

18-4-2019 4:45 PM

Keywords

trump, border, politics

Biography

My name is Lauren Stewart, and I am from Huntington, WV. I am a senior at Marshall University majoring in Political Science and Latin.

Major

Political Science

Advisor for this project

Jamie Warner

Abstract

I will examine the relationship between conservative tendencies and Donald Trump’s border wall rhetoric. Conservatives are more predisposed to avoid foreign groups, disgust, and societal pollution. I seek to argue that the border wall is a ceremonial purification of external societies. Pollution causes a disruption in the culture, and the wall is a symbolic object to represent the purification. I seek to discuss pollution, disgust, and purification as a method to appeal towards conservative ideologies.

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Trump's Border Wall Rhetoric

I will examine the relationship between conservative tendencies and Donald Trump’s border wall rhetoric. Conservatives are more predisposed to avoid foreign groups, disgust, and societal pollution. I seek to argue that the border wall is a ceremonial purification of external societies. Pollution causes a disruption in the culture, and the wall is a symbolic object to represent the purification. I seek to discuss pollution, disgust, and purification as a method to appeal towards conservative ideologies.