Smith

Spencer Charles Smith

Mr. Adam Padgett
English 102
February 29th 2016
What is causing Donald Trumps rise to political stardom? Annotated Bibliography
Inquiry Question: What is causing Donald Trumps rise to political stardom?
Proposed Thesis: Donald Trumps profound rise to political stardom has lead many to attempt to
uncover the reasoning.

Donald Trump Presidential Campaign, 2016." Https://ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia, n.d. Web. 29

Jan. 2016. <https://ballotpedia.org Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign,_2016>.

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bibliography)
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This article presents the facts on trump and his political stance on most political issues

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within the United States. It does this by compiling his different statements and political values
thus compiling his perspective on these issues. This allows for voters to get a glimpse of his

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seems a little repetitive

political ideals. It discusses that Trump is a Christian pro-life candidate. His political campaign is

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founded upon his motto Make America Great Again, Trump has lived behind this motto his
entire campaign. This slogan is used to rally his support bases to promote a better America. This

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is a primary reason for Donald Trumps success within the polls because of the belief of many

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people that America has been dethroned as the greatest country in the World.

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Scherer, Micheal. "Donald Trump." Times 21 Dec. 2015: 104-14. Academic Search Complete
[EBSCO]. Web. 4 Feb. 2016. <http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/ehost/detail
/detail?vid=5&sid=f250fe27-f682-4fa7-a4bb-b2154b3bf1e3%40sessionmgr4003&hid
=4102&bdata= JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=111496488&db=a9h>.

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Micheal Scherer uses the real life experience and interactions with Trump in order to
identify his tactics and political values. Some of the major evidence within the article are in the
Scherer recollection of a Trump rally and of an interview he had with Trump as a perspective
Time's man of the year candidate. Scherer is in this article is supposed to explain the aspects of
Trumps rise but primarily the reasoning for his consideration of the Time's man of the year
award. However, much of the article is using author bias presenting Trump as an unlikely
presidential candidate and an unlikely man of the year candidate.

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Silver, Nate. "Three Theories of Donald Trump Rise." Http://fivethirtyeight.com/.

FiveThirtyEight, 08 Jan. 2016. Web. 29 Jan.
2016.<http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/three-theories-of-donald-trumps-rise/>.

Three Theories of Donald Trump Rise is suggesting that there are three possibilities
for the rise of Trump within the 2016 presidential race. Silvers suggest that Trumps rise comes
due to a political revolt in American citizens, a nationwide transition into republican ideals, or
that his major popularity comes from the media bubble constantly surrounding him. By limiting

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the possibilities and only looking at it from a select point of views, Silvers is restricting other
possible reasons for Trumps success. This article is attempting to uncover the primary reason for

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Trumps success within the presidential race. By doing this, they are attempting to convey to the

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readers that there is a false security within Trumps success thus causing complacent and
uninformed voting by the American population.

"Republican Presidential Field: The Known And The Unknown." Rhodes Cook Letter 12.2
(2011): 11-13. Academic Search Complete. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.

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This article discusses the GOP presidential field of the 2011 election. Republican

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Presidential Field: The Known and The Unknown shows the same increase that has been
reflected in the 2016 GOP presidential race with Donald Trumps voters. The article shows

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the sentence before the same way

Donald Trumps increase from 1 percent to 16 percent of the vote within the matter of one month.
The obscure thing about this is that Trump never officially declared himself for president in the
2012 election. This leads to the idea that Trump strategically chooses 2016 to run for the
presidency because of the increasingly extreme beliefs and distrust of Americans of political
leaders, including Barack Obama.

Hirschman, Elizabeth C. "Secular Immortality And The American Ideology Of

Affluence." Journal Of Consumer Research 17.1 (1990): 31-42. Academic Search
Complete. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.

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"Secular Immortality and The American Ideology Of Affluence gives the foundation for
Trumps behavior within the private sector. The article discusses the successes and the wealth that
Trump has accumulated over his time in business. Hirschman focuses on the entitled and the rich
within the article discusses the secular benefits of wealth and business. Not only does she
mention Trump in this article but talks about other large economic players such as Forbes. This
source allows me to get in-depth insight into Trump and the people that were like him.

Dochuk, Darren. "The Fissuring Of The Republican Party." New Labor Forum (Sage
Publications Inc.) 25.1 (2016): 26-33. Academic Search Complete. Web. 29 Feb. 2016.

The Fissuring Of The Republican Party presents the Republican party as selfdestructing. It describes Trump increasing to the top of the polls as the Trump phenomenon.
The article suggests that the cause of this is that the Republican party is lacking in philosophical
depth. This is causing an uproar within the political party and their lack of control of the political

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candidates and their voters. It quotes Daniel Rodgers who says that All Americans have lost the
capacity to conceptualize. Overall, this academic journal provides a synopsis of the fall of the
Republican party.
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of fixing all the times you use this. You did a great job
summarizing your sources, but maybe you can expand a
little more about what the articles say. Maybe you can add a
few quotes!