{"id":12860,"date":"2024-12-02T10:11:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?p=12860"},"modified":"2024-12-03T04:36:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T09:36:26","slug":"two-bu-experts-parse-fears-based-on-president-elects-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2024\/12\/02\/two-bu-experts-parse-fears-based-on-president-elects-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Two BU Experts Discuss Fears Based on President-Elect\u2019s Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he would be a dictator\u2014only on his first day in office. Some of his other utterances and actions about seeking revenge on opponents and rewarding his most loyal supporters have also\u00a0unnerved critics, who see his behavior as unsettling, maybe even antidemocratic. But how much of what Trump says is bluster meant only to rile up his base and how much of it is grounded in actions he will actually attempt to take?<\/span><\/p>\n

The president-elect\u2019s musing about turning the military on \u201cradical left lunatics\u201d led a Harvard expert on democracy to pronounce it\u00a0<\/span>\u201cclassic authoritarian discourse.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Trump also doubled down, postelection, on his support for the military mass-deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants. That prompted a University of Pennsylvania political scientist to muse about a potential backlash against\u00a0<\/span>\u201cGestapo\u201d-like raids<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

BU Today\u00a0<\/span><\/em>asked\u00a0Jonathan Zatlin<\/a>, an associate professor of history at the College of Arts & Sciences, and <\/span>Timothy Longman<\/a>, CISS affiliate and a professor of international relations and of political science at the Pardee School of Global Studies, whether concerns about Trump\u2019s second term in the White House are justified. Longman is a scholar of African human rights, democratization, and the interplay of politics with race and ethnicity, women, and religion…<\/span><\/p>\n

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To read more, visit\u00a0BU Today<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>where this article<\/span> originally appeared on November 27, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he would be a dictator\u2014only on his first day in office. Some of his other utterances and actions about seeking revenge on opponents and rewarding his most loyal supporters have also\u00a0unnerved critics, who see his behavior as unsettling, maybe even antidemocratic. But how much of what Trump says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12891,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860\/revisions\/12891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}