Access is important. Slate is offering six months of Slate Plus to current and recently laid-off federal government employees. If you or someone you know has been affected, click here to get six months of Slate Plus free. Donald Trump has a favorite rhetorical trick when performing at peak mob boss, and experts on rhetoric call it paralipsis. As Texas A&M University communications professor Jennifer Mercieca describes it in her book Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump, it’s the simple move of saying something shocking while at the same time leaving room to disavow it. Paralipsis functions...
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