Incidence of the historical past in the speeches of the 2018 presidential election

Abstract

The objective of this work was to map and assign meaning to the political uses of the historical past throughout the interviews carried out with the thirteen candidates running for the presidency in 2018. With a methodology that combined the quantitative and qualitative comparison of the incidences of the past in the discourses, it is proposed, here, the creation of two analytical categories: temporal transit of discourse and temporal axis of discourse for the development of this study. Among the conclusions obtained, there is the confirmation that the past was an extremely active nucleus in the mobilization of electoral speeches and that the candidates accessed the past predominantly through the “key” magistra vitae history, although this access also occurred through nostalgia, resentment, imputation, of history as collective protagonism and, more dramatically, through revisionism/negationism.