🔴 Quantifying the uniqueness and divisiveness of presidential discourse

"In nearly all of our analyses, Donald Trump appears as a clear outlier. On the campaign trail, in presidential debates, and in official presidential addresses, we find, Trump’s speech patterns routinely differ from those of all recent presidents —lending credence to Kurt Anderson’s observation that, “The version of English [Trump] speaks amounts to its own patois, with a special vocabulary and syntax and psychological substrate” (4)."

Karen Zhou, Alexander A Meitus, Milo Chase, Grace Wang, Anne Mykland, William Howell, Chenhao Tan, Quantifying the uniqueness and divisiveness of presidential discourse, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 10, October 2024, pgae431, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae431

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