The “Foreign Puppet” Narrative: Rhetorical Strategies, National Identity, and the Risk of Identity-Based Political Polarization
This study is motivated by the phenomenon of the use of the “foreign stooge” narrative in Prabowo Subianto’s political communication, which reflects the symbolic construction of the “us” and “them” groups. This study employs a qualitative approach using Fairclough’s model of Critical Discourse Analysis. Data were colle...