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One reason why Americans elected Obama in 2008 was that the rhetoric of US idealism had once again led to the death and displacement of millions.
It is likely that the regime will attempt to counter this eruption of nationalism while maintaining its strong statist rhetoric.
This makes it difficult for right-wing parties to combine their usual rhetoric of economic liberalism with nationalism; or for left-wing parties to reconcile their traditional preferences of internationalism and statism.
What, then, does Obama’s choice tell us about the sincerity of his feminist rhetoric?
It did not take long for the normalization of nationalist rhetoric to affect the daily lives of Britain’s immigrant population.
The happy surprise of the regional vote owes absolutely nothing to accommodations with the FN by major parties that supposedly “heard the message” of “angry” voters (rhetoric that they relentlessly drummed into us).
The good news is that fewer and fewer economists question the need to shift to a green economy, though this emerging consensus is not yet reflected in the pro-growth rhetoric of economics or in politics and public policy outside of China and exotic outliers like Bhutan.
In their rhetoric, President Dmitri Medvedev and his technocrats embrace this vision.
The Chinese Communist Party has abandoned all but the rhetoric of Marxism, and lacks any alternative vision for the future of the country.
From their rhetoric and regulatory policies, it would appear that most governments have ended up in the third, fence-sitting camp.
It would be a pity if these concerns continued to be distorted by hard-line Chinese leaders engaging in nationalist rhetoric aimed at convincing their people that Americans and others stand opposed to China's legitimate national aspirations.
Such incendiary rhetoric directly hurts immigrants, even those who have long lived in their new country.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a far more appealing individual than “The Donald,” but his anti-trade rhetoric is almost as dangerous.
Unfortunately, the resounding success of Sanders’s and Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric has pulled Clinton away from her more centrist position, and might have the same effect on many members of the House and Senate.
But rhetoric alone cannot boost an economy’s growth trajectory.
This anti-Iran rhetoric was certainly in keeping with Trump’s own.
But by January, my holiday cheer is usually replaced with dread because the tensions fueling Bush’s rhetoric – and the reasons he dismissed Bill Clinton’s preferred label of “partner” – have never adequately been addressed.
Rouhani’s recent rhetoric, however positive, falls far short of the expectations that his diplomacy has raised since his UN address last September.
In Davos, the world expected a decisive statement on Syria and other regional problems – not hackneyed nationalist rhetoric about eliminating “biases” against Iran.
What Syria needs is not rhetoric or charisma; it needs action.
Loose rhetoric has coarsened not only political debate, but historical memory, too.
Trump seems to have abandoned earlier proposals for a border adjustment tax, and he may not follow through on all of his protectionist rhetoric.
After all, EU policymakers don’t know if they should put more stock in the heated rhetoric of Trump and his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, or in the more conciliatory words of Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive now leading the US National Economic Council.
Things are not as clear-cut on the security front, especially given the large gaps between the Trump administration’s rhetoric and facts on the ground.
Political rhetoric can stop a good policy from being adopted, but it cannot stop it from succeeding.
Like it or not, talk of Russia competing with the West is nothing more than sentimental nostalgia or meaningless rhetoric.
As Russia’s deputy prime minister since 2005, he has not gone beyond consoling rhetoric.
Looking beyond the rhetoric of the new left in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador, it is already clear that today’s “twenty-first century socialism” is no different from its twentieth-century antecedents.
And today their leaders’ heartless behavior and callous rhetoric play to popular sentiment.
While populist rhetoric seems to be reaching fever pitch, with far-reaching consequences – most notably the United Kingdom’s vote to “Brexit” the European Union – the reality is that the strain of nativism that it represents has long bedeviled democratic politics.
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