Message and meaning

Leadership consists, in important measure, of creating identities, defining situations, interpreting realities and explaining what’s happening to people in terms that followers understand and can relate to. Charismatic leadership emerges when the stakes are high, when a sense of crisis pervades the public, when uncontrollable and dislocating change hangs in […] Read more »

Trump Hits a Wall Within the GOP; His Critics Back a Convention Fight

Donald Trump’s facing a wall within his party, with Republicans who don’t currently support him far more apt to prefer Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio in a two-way race — or even to favor a contested convention to block Trump’s nomination. CONT. Gary Langer, ABC News Read more »

Will Trump Send Working-Class Whites to the Democrats?

Democrats have regularly argued that, with a robust populist pitch, winning back white working-class voters could be within reach. In 2016, there is evidence that, with the impact of Donald J. Trump on the race, that could actually happen. CONT. Andrew Levison, New York Times Read more »