Why there are no contradictions in Trump's government? A lesson from Lyndon Baines Johnson

Donald Trump, as a prototypical populist leader, positions himself as the self-proclaimed “voice” of the “good people”—often characterized as the common American patriot and working-class citizen. This rhetorical strategy is emblematic of the populist playbook, which has been extensively analyzed in the scholarly literature on populism (Mudde, 2004; Taggart, 2000). A defining feature of populist rhetoric, particularly in Western democracies, is the idealized construction of the white working...