E03 A Tale of Two Demagogues

In our second installment on demagogic rhetoric, we explore the good the bad and the ugly of demagoguery and the rhetorical styles of AOC and Trump with special guests Ryan Skinnell and Jennifer Mercieca.

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In the World: “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times”

On the Page with Ryan Skinnell and Jen Mercieca

In the Class, Rhetorical Listening

Learn More

Read Krista Ratcliffe’s “Rhetorical Listening: A Trope for Interpretive Invention and Cross-Cultural Conduct”

Read Washington Post columnist Max Boot’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shouldn’t approach her facts the way Trump does

Read David Bauder’s Hero or villain, Ocasio-Cortez remains a media fixation

Read Megan Garber’s What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Demagogues’

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