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, damne...