Professor Nyhan on NPR
Professor Brendan Nyhan, a member of the Steering Committee of the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) and Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, recently appeared on NPR talking about former President Donald Trump's recent comments about a bloodbath should he lose the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
According to Professor Nyhan, "Trump often relies on plausible deniability. It's important to make clear that the bloodbath comment was in the context of a discussion of the auto industry, but it's also hard not to be worried when a president who inspired a violent insurrection and often explicitly endorses political violence is using language like that. We have very good reason to fear another January 6 if he loses this election, and that language communicated that threat in a way that I think resonated with people, even if the context was in part lost."
Listen to the interview here: "Trump says some migrants are 'not people' and warns of a 'bloodbath' if he loses"
Professor Nyhan taught GOVT 10: Quantitative Political Analysis and GOVT 35: The Presidency in Winter 2024. He will be teaching GOVT 30.04 Political Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories (cross-listed with PBPL 023) and GOVT 83.21 Experiments in Politics (cross-listed with QSS 30.03) in Spring 2024.