At risk of repeating myself, the more I re-study rhetoric, the more I want to hit every leader of the Clinton...
At risk of repeating myself, the more I re-study rhetoric, the more I want to hit every leader of the Clinton campaign with a rhetoric stick (see: argumentum ad baculum). This has nothing to do with the official debates; it has to do with the entire approach to dealing with Trump. He did not run an unassailable campaign, yet the other side kept handing out rhetorical gift bags.
Probably one of, if not the most well known example is the "basket of deplorables". YUGE failure of decorum/ethos. Hi, I can't relate to you, bugger off. Yeah, that's a successful persuasive strategy. I haven't read her book, but I hear that Clinton actually notes this as an error on her part in her election post-mortem. No idea precisely how she notes it, not having read her. Hopefully, with some insight.
Aside:
I'm not going to get into the fraught territory of decorum that touches on clothing, because that has been a classic venue for attacking women forever - damned if you do, damned if you don't. All a man has to do to be "relatable" is take off the jacket and the tie and roll up the sleeves. Oo, how ordinary and hard working he looks!
Meanwhile, Trump wears thousands of dollars of custom suits and he still looks frumpy because he doesn't actually like them properly tailored. Suddenly, that makes him relatable. Oh, look, he looks kind of sloppy in his $7000 Italian suit. That's just how I look when I rent/buy a suit from [random store]. He's just like me!
The man is a walking insult to tailoring.
Meanwhile, #pantsuit is still a running meme/joke in some quarters. You can't win.
Probably one of, if not the most well known example is the "basket of deplorables". YUGE failure of decorum/ethos. Hi, I can't relate to you, bugger off. Yeah, that's a successful persuasive strategy. I haven't read her book, but I hear that Clinton actually notes this as an error on her part in her election post-mortem. No idea precisely how she notes it, not having read her. Hopefully, with some insight.
Aside:
I'm not going to get into the fraught territory of decorum that touches on clothing, because that has been a classic venue for attacking women forever - damned if you do, damned if you don't. All a man has to do to be "relatable" is take off the jacket and the tie and roll up the sleeves. Oo, how ordinary and hard working he looks!
Meanwhile, Trump wears thousands of dollars of custom suits and he still looks frumpy because he doesn't actually like them properly tailored. Suddenly, that makes him relatable. Oh, look, he looks kind of sloppy in his $7000 Italian suit. That's just how I look when I rent/buy a suit from [random store]. He's just like me!
The man is a walking insult to tailoring.
Meanwhile, #pantsuit is still a running meme/joke in some quarters. You can't win.
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