I've been reading a lot about rhetoric lately.

I've been reading a lot about rhetoric lately. Not that I'm demonstrating that on here, but I digress. Anyway, it leaves me with the extremely clear thought that the biggest failing of the Clinton campaign was rhetorical, on multiple levels. Maybe I'll bore you with details of my thoughts at some point, but it is boggling to me that political professionals, some of them highly experienced and some who definitely had at least some classical education, so badly mishandled this particular skill.

Moreover, there seems to be consensus that Clinton was highly skilled at doing the jobs that made her qualified to run for POTUS. Those jobs inherently require skill with different aspects of rhetoric, even if you can't pronounce 'enthymeme' (or debate it). What happened to those skills in that campaign? Very disappointing.