Extreme Rhetoric

Extracted Attributes

• Nature

  Divisive, demeaning, deceptive

• Consequences

  Instigates controversy, hinders productive societal engagement, contributes to polarization

• Associated Ideologies

  Belief systems at the far ends of the ideological spectrum, characterized by rigid views and a willingness to use radical measures

• Impact on Democratic Discourse

  Narrows understanding, closes off compromise, undermines democratic promise

Mike Davis (American lawyer)

Mike Davis is an American lawyer, conservative political strategist, adviser, and provocateur. He was Chief Counsel for Nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and the founder and president of the Article III Project (A3P). He is a staunch defender and ally of Donald Trump and was rumored to be one of his candidates for Attorney General.

Web Search Results

• The Lure & Dangers of Extremist Rhetoric

  But when it’s politically for real, extremist rhetoric has far less benign effects on democratic discourse: it demeans opponents, radically narrows understanding of the issue at hand, and closes off compromise. Extremist rhetoric insidiously undermines the democratic promise of mobilizing citizens on the basis of some reasonable understanding of their interest and the public interest. The problem for representative democracy, therefore, is that many people who are not ideological zealots manipulatively use extreme rhetoric for their own mutually disrespectful political ends–at the same time as zealots of all ideological stripes insidiously subvert the compromising spirit of democracy through their use of extremist rhetoric. Extreme and extremist rhetoric tends to divide, demean, and deceive democratic citizens.

• Significance loss as the rhetoric of extreme ideologies

  by G Di Cicco · 2025 — Extreme ideologies are belief systems at the far ends of the ideological spectrum, characterized by rigid views and a willingness to use radical measures to

• The Polarizing Impact of Political Disinformation and Hate ...

  by PN Vasist·2023·Cited by 105—Hate speech contributes to polarizationas well (Piazza, 2020), while state-controlled media with censorship efforts could also polarize societies (Zhu, 2019).

• Rhetoric

  # Rhetoric | Rhetoric | Aristotle defined rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion", and since mastery of the art was necessary for victory in a case at law, for passage of proposals in the assembly, or for fame as a speaker in civic ceremonies, he called it "a combination of the science of logic and of the ethical branch of politics". He writes, "I do think that the study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form such qualities of character." Aristotle, writing several years after Isocrates, supported many of his arguments and argued for rhetoric as a civic art. "Rhetoric". * "Rhetoric". * Rhetoric

• Divisive Rhetoric: The political messages limiting our ...

  Nov 3, 2017—Negative rhetoriconly instigates controversy and people fail to be productive members ofsocietythrough superficial bickering, aggression,