The Republic on Parade – James Hankins

The Republic on Parade – James Hankins

At the present moment, our screens are full of images of rioting and violence, and both parties are straining to craft visual narratives based on those images to build popular support for their partisan policies and worldviews. American political leaders used to cultivate positive messages in public and conduct “oppo research” in secret. Now both parties accentuate the negative, all the time. The opposite party is the enemy: they are fascists, t…