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The Green Virus: Purity and Contamination in Ralph Nader's 2000 Presidential Campaign
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
- Michigan State University Press
- Volume 4, Number 4, Winter 2001
- pp. 581-603
- 10.1353/rap.2001.0072
- Article
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Abstract
This essay explores how the rhetorical binary of purity and contamination undermined Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign. Instead of insisting on an unadulterated space from which to launch their attacks on a corrupt system, the Greens might have had more success by embracing their role as an infecting agent--a kind of green virus--actively forcing a reconfiguration of American politics.
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