Populism, Anti‐Intellectualism, and Political Performance: Understanding Patterns in U.S. Presidential Campaign Rhetoric, 1952–2020
Drawing on a large corpus of political rhetoric that encompasses 21 US presidential campaigns between 1952 and 2020, this article provides a sociological account of the politician's anti‐intellectual performance. To exact the dynamics of this understudied performance, I compare frames on intellectualism put forth by...