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DONALD TRUMP, MAO ZEDONG AND RELIGIOUS ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM

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DONALD TRUMP, MAO ZEDONG AND RELIGIOUS ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2022
Imprint Routledge

Pages 17
eBook ISBN 9781003110361

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ABSTRACT

Comparing Donald Trump, popularly elected and serving a single four-year term
before losing his bid for reelection, and Mao Zedong, who ruled China
autocratically for decades, might point to more differences than similarities.
But Bin Song, in his chapter, comparing these two figures, sees an essential
parallel: both Mao and Trump relied on, as their chief base of support, personal
allegiance from millions of fervent followers who saw themselves engaged in a
titanic struggle against elites who had weakened and betrayed the nation, and
would do so again if they gained power. This mass of citizens-factory workers,
peasants and “red guards” for Mao, “red-staters” for Trump-saw the two men as
avatars of the true nation: strong, heroic men defending a great community’s
cultural integrity and heritage against faceless bureaucrats and opportunistic
political elites. But Song takes this populist analysis one step further: beyond
cultivating an intensely political loyalty to a hero defending a beleaguered
cultural identity, Mao and Trump made an explicitly religious appeal:
anti-intellectualism with a religious dimension, viz., the “heart knowledge”, or
“conscientious awareness,” as Song translates from the Chinese. Trump, Song
argues, consistently preferred to appeal to religious belief over bureaucratic
or scientific claims of expertise, for instance, in his handling of the Covid-19
pandemic. Neither Mao nor Trump was personally deeply religious, Song suggests,
but both deftly deployed religious tropes-in the case of Mao, Ruism or Confucian
wisdom; in the case of Trump, biblical allusions.




ABSTRACT

Comparing Donald Trump, popularly elected and serving a single four-year term
before losing his bid for reelection, and Mao Zedong, who ruled China
autocratically for decades, might point to more differences than similarities.
But Bin Song, in his chapter, comparing these two figures, sees an essential
parallel: both Mao and Trump relied on, as their chief base of support, personal
allegiance from millions of fervent followers who saw themselves engaged in a
titanic struggle against elites who had weakened and betrayed the nation, and
would do so again if they gained power. This mass of citizens-factory workers,
peasants and “red guards” for Mao, “red-staters” for Trump-saw the two men as
avatars of the true nation: strong, heroic men defending a great community’s
cultural integrity and heritage against faceless bureaucrats and opportunistic
political elites. But Song takes this populist analysis one step further: beyond
cultivating an intensely political loyalty to a hero defending a beleaguered
cultural identity, Mao and Trump made an explicitly religious appeal:
anti-intellectualism with a religious dimension, viz., the “heart knowledge”, or
“conscientious awareness,” as Song translates from the Chinese. Trump, Song
argues, consistently preferred to appeal to religious belief over bureaucratic
or scientific claims of expertise, for instance, in his handling of the Covid-19
pandemic. Neither Mao nor Trump was personally deeply religious, Song suggests,
but both deftly deployed religious tropes-in the case of Mao, Ruism or Confucian
wisdom; in the case of Trump, biblical allusions.



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