Daniel Stockemer (English and French)
Full Professor, School of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies.
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Professor Stockemer's research and expertise includes:
- Political participation
- Social movements
- Right-wing extremism
- Democracy and democratization
"The MAGA movement is mad, because the Trump administration does not make all documents related to the probe public to further nurture the conspiracy and entangle itself in contradictions. According to the MAGA movement, the Trump administration uses deep state tactics to hide the real cause for its death."
Charles-Étienne Beaudry (English and French)
Part-time Professor, School of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Professor Beaudry is the author of Radio Trump: How he won the first time and his research includes research into the influence of conspiracy theories in the 2016 American presidential race.
"A non-negligible part of the construction of the Trump cult of personality within his base was that he was seen as someone who would reveal the secrets of the American power elite (the "deep state" conspiracy theory), including the list of people who took part to the Epstein network. The U-turn appears to be hurting the trust that long time MAGA enthusiasts have for Trump. It shows that the instrumentalization of conspiracy theories for political gains is a risky game that can backfire against the propagandists.
"Will this be enough to bring down the house of cards of lies and Machiavellian maneuvers that allowed Donald Trump to have access to a lot more power that he should have had?"