Part 6: How does Trump's assassination attempt change perceptions of him? Anthropologist Dr Yancey Orr provides his thoughts on how to understand the cultural impact of that moment.
This is an excerpt of the USSC Briefing Room episode From strongman to living martyr: How Trump’s assassination attempt changes his image. Listen to the full episode here:
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TRANSCRIPT
And we think about the image of the American lion, right? Getting back up on its feet. And this is, in fact, a Christian imagery that lions were seen to be a type of a symbol for the resurrection because people thought that lion cubs were born dead. And it was only through the breath of their mother that the lion was given life after it was born.
And the idea that, of course, that this is good and evil, right? And that the devil came to Pennsylvania. Well, certainly there was something very wrong with the young man who did this. But the idea that also that the devil is Trump's political opponents is sort of another layer that's put on top of this.
24 окт 2024