Habitat for Inhumanity

Smith, E. C.

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“…What Cicero made the motto of judges in Republican Rome must apply as well to judges in all civilized systems of law: salus populi suprema lex esto ('the safety of the people shall be their highest law'). 43 Writing in relation to legislation, Thomas Hobbes asserts that: 62 President Donald Trump showed himself adept at creating a crowd in the form of the 'Make America Great Again' movement (and through reciprocal co-Production it is also true that the crowd made him after the model of Bourdieu's 'group made man'), 63 but he learned to his shame and to the cost of civil peace that a crowd once created is easily moved but much less easily steered. On 6 January 2021, Donald Trump's supporters violently stormed the US Capitol Building in an attempt to thwart the Senate's confirmation of Joe Biden's election as US president.…”

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Co-Production and Populism

2023

The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

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Production fulfils the making of a thing by bringing it to public scrutiny. Production is therefore the cutting edge of rhetorical performance in law, politics, media, and all aspects of civic and social life. Its impact lies largely in the fact that the publicor 'publics'are naturally most persuaded towards the positive reception of a thing where they perceive that they've had a hand in the co-Production of the thing. The appeal to 'making with' has been a technique favoured by orators throughout the history of political rhetoric. President John F. Kennedy employed it in his Inaugural Address on 20 January 1961, when he called on 'both sides' to 'join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved'. With the very different motivation of seeking to divide one section of humanity from the rest, Donald Trump also appealed to collaborative construction when he famously said: 'we have to build a wall, folks. We have to build a wall.' 1 Perhaps he borrowed the technique from his background in business and sales, for the appeal to 'making with' is also pervasive in modern marketing practices. Thus, in 2008, word-of-mouth or 'viral' marketing was called 'the defining marketing trend of the decade'. 2 Analysing that trend, Jim Nail, chief strategy and marketing officer at media company Cymfony, emphasizes the public's co-Productive influence on demand for the things that suppliers make: 'To succeed in word-of-mouth marketing, you need to find that segment of real ardent fans and create special programs and tools that will empower them to share that enthusiasm.' 3 The tactic of appealing to and empowering 'that segment of real ardent fans' sounds like something straight out of the Donald Trump playbook.

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Section: Public Participation In Judicial Productionmentioning

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Co-Production and Populism

2023

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Habitat for Inhumanity

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