The silent majority, populism and the shadow sides of democracy.

Footnotes 1 Nixon propounded, as an "honorable end to the war", a policy of "Vietnamization" "in which the United States would slowly pull its ground forces out of Vietnam while escalating the air war and increasing its training of the South Vietnamese military" (Laderman, [23], p. 2). 2 Abramowitz's ([1]) public polling research points to the white racial resentment so key to Trump's support during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, under the confounded notion that Trump could "bring back [ I sic i .] Tocqueville's categories in this regard anticipate the "Silent Majority" of Trump and Nixon. REPRESENTING THE VOX POPULI In his essay, "Populism and Constitutionalism", Jan-Werner Müller (2017) remarks: "It is not an accident that Richard Nixon's famous (or infamous) notion of a "silent majority" has had such a career among populists: if the majority were not silent, it would already have a government that truly represents the people" (p. 595). To bring this point into the context of this paper, the hubris and I failure i surrounding the storming of the Capitol in 2021 - the Trump-led effort to overturn the 2020 election results - as with Watergate in 1972, may be read ultimately as both Trump and Nixon's I misrecognition i of the separation of these two images of power. [Extracted from the article]