These Rhetorical Devices Help Trump Maintain Power
What rhetoric means in the outrage media entertainment complex.

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Episode Notes
Virginia Heffernan talks to Jennifer Mercieca, professor of rhetoric and author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump, breaking down how he uses language to control his audience, philosophical explorations of Hobbes and Descartes, the unexamined rhetorical life of Hillary Clinton, and rhetorical devices to watch in the 2020 presidential campaigns.
Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan. Engineering help from Merritt Jacob.