🎯 Learning Objectives: By the end of this lecture, students will be able to: Define political dog whistles and understand their impact on targeted audiences. Identify euphemisms commonly used in Republican rhetoric and analyze their purpose. Recognize how coded language manipulates perception while avoiding direct accountability. Understand historical and modern examples of language used to promote division or moral panic. Use critical thinking tools to decode and challenge weaponized political language. Develop communication strategies to counter deceptive messaging in political discourse. Lecture 5, Part 1: Introduction — The Power of Language in Politics “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.” In politics, words don’t just convey information — they shape belief , signal identity , and trigger emotion . Nowhere is this more evident than in the Republican Playbook, where language is wielded with precision not for clarity, but for control. This lect...