Donald Trump has carved out an aspect of the survivalist trope so adroitly that it led to unexpected political success in 2016. It could easily happen again in 2024, says this political studies professor from Mount Saint Vincent University.
) but its primary force is a culture prepared to accept a revolutionary message.
As American public policy professor David Gergen noted in 2016, Trump’s political success is based on his emotional appeal. “In politics,” Gergen wrote, “emotions count as much as math”.In popular culture, the US is brimming with similar narratives that cast the marginalised as heroes and public officials and institutions as corrupt and incompetent.
A frame rests on the stories we relate to and gets pulled to the surface by words, pictures or sounds that remind us of them - a neurological reaction that is immediate and unconscious.- and a politician’s frame has to be supported by a deeper cultural narrative. Dominant movies, video games and graphic novels help build and sustain the survivalist narrative through powerful art.
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