likely refrain for questioning any other information provided to them. In the text, rhetoric is defined as the means in which one communicates or influences another using methods of persuasion. One might notice this throughout their normal routine on apps such as Spotify, Snapchat, or YouTube. For instance, when watching a friends story on the Snapchat app, advertisements disrupt your browsing, promoting different candidates. “Misogynistic regimes, wall street insiders, corrupt dictators. They all had one thing in common, their check cleared. The Clintons are now worth in excess of 100 million dollars.” (narrator from Donald Trump Campaign) Similar to one the previous quote against Hillary Clinton’s financials, created in hopes of inspiring conspiracy, there will be ads for an election in which one candidate either promotes themselves in a positive
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The New Yorker labeled him as being “devoted to anti-rhetoric. Boasts and fears and menacing attacks are followed by instant “solutions” (about fighting ISIS: “You don’t want to know what I’m going to do”)—punctuated by war whoops and cries of adoration from the crowd.”(Denby) This suggests that he engages his audience by activating undesirable emotions like sorrow or anger and following it with a solution, alluring relief, attracting overwhelming support for his campaign.
Lastly, another example of political rhetoric that comes to mind is the use of a slogan attached to each candidate during a campaign such as Donald Trump’s phrase “Make America Great Again”. The slogan is meant to send off an impression to the population that he is working to better the country. This serves as a foundation for his candidacy and sets his campaign off in a positive note, projecting good intentions. These phrases often distribute a sense of security toward the applicant, which can potentially blur out any negativity or bad intentions from that
The New Yorker labeled him as being “devoted to anti-rhetoric. Boasts and fears and menacing attacks are followed by instant “solutions” (about fighting ISIS: “You don’t want to know what I’m going to do”)—punctuated by war whoops and cries of adoration from the crowd.”(Denby) This suggests that he engages his audience by activating undesirable emotions like sorrow or anger and following it with a solution, alluring relief, attracting overwhelming support for his campaign.
Lastly, another example of political rhetoric that comes to mind is the use of a slogan attached to each candidate during a campaign such as Donald Trump’s phrase “Make America Great Again”. The slogan is meant to send off an impression to the population that he is working to better the country. This serves as a foundation for his candidacy and sets his campaign off in a positive note, projecting good intentions. These phrases often distribute a sense of security toward the applicant, which can potentially blur out any negativity or bad intentions from that