Nationalism

[Dill]

(11-08-2018, 02:57 AM)treee Wrote: It seems like he was just trolling the media, using the term on purpose (probably distracting from something else that was getting coverage).

Maybe. It's also possible that he just wanders into those moments. Feels (rightly) that at that moment the crowd would respond to something "anti-globalist" and framed as "saying words we aren't supposed to say anymore." Then he's not really ready for the fallout. Didn't expect people would continue to call him on it. Feels "attacked" unfairly by the enemy of the people and so on.

It's also possible he knew exactly what the term meant, that it was at once a dogwhistle for a proportion of the base AND plausibly deniable as such.