rhetoric

The reports began introducing the rhetoric of climate change straight into the heart of the far right’s vocabulary.

And Homan’s interview isn’t just rhetoric.

Some hoped he would follow through on his dovish campaign rhetoric, others thought he might escalate conflict in the Middle East.

I will never get over the fact that his criminal convictions, hateful rhetoric, blatant sexism, despicable demonizing of fellow humans and trashing of democracy failed to turn more Americans away from him, but this should permanently end the tired and wrong notion that “we” are better than this.

Jennifer Mercieca is a historian of American political rhetoric.