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Donald Trump was the first real rhetorician to become President of the United States. But politicians who claim to be tribunals of helpless citizens Institution The corrupt are historically known United States At the state and local levels. As a form of politics, popular rhetoric thrives when a large group of citizens feel that their values ​​and interests are being ignored by politics.

At the end of the next phase of the American Civil War, the Bourbon Democrats, known as the Reconstruction Age, became the elite descendants of slave owners. Before the war As their allies, they dominated the governments of the southern states from Virginia to Texas. L ‘Bourbon aristocracy All blacks in the South lost their right to vote using the voting tax (tax levied on people who agreed to vote), literacy tests, and other means designed to suppress voting. As a result, the Republican Party was virtually eliminated from the South. of) – It trapped whites and blacks.

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Southern aristocratic politics created its enmity in the form of political rhetoric popular rhetoric involving small peasants and working class whites. Despite its elite background, the South distinguished many rhetoricians from the ruling class with their vulgar language and propaganda. In South Carolina, after President Grover attacked Cleveland in this manner, Governor Benjamin R. Tillman earned the nickname “Pitchfork Ben”: “I’m going to stick my pitchfork on the fat old ribs!” In Texas, 300 pounds (approximately 130 kg) James Stephen Hogg turned the pig into a symbol of his successful campaign to become governor.

Many Southern rhetoric has used racism to attract wealthy non-wealthy whites who are concerned about black competition. In Mississippi, Governor and later U.S. Senator James K. Vardhaman described himself as the “Great White Chief” and demonstrated his commitment to white supremacy by riding a bullock cart in white. Whites. Others proved to be opportunists. Tom Watson in the early twentieth century Georgia He first welcomed black support and then defended white supremacy. Generations later, Alabama Governor George Wallace, on the other hand, was linked to separatists before leaving the wheelchair after surviving an assassination attempt and turning to black voters at the end of his career.

In addition, many populist Democrats denounced urban commercial and banking institutions and large corporations, often centered in the north of the United States, which dominates the economies of their states. W. of Texas. Lee “Poppy” O’Donnell, the governor of Texas and U.S. Senator Hillbilly Radio star, was one of the most important figures in corporates and the rich. The Southern Democrats generally abandoned their followers and joined the organization. Sometimes they established family dynasties in state politics. Hui P. Long Louisiana, Who became the governor of “The Kingfish” and later the senator of the United States, calling the slogan “Every Man a King”. Long, assassinated in 1935, was later appointed governor by his brother Erl and his son Russell in the US Senate.