Week 1
The schema used here is to "intensify" by association defined as a cause, product or candidate linked to something already liked or disliked by audience. Recently in the race for Governor in Florida, Republican Ron DiSantis said Florida voters "cant afford to monkey this up", by voting for his opponent Democrat Andrew Gillum who happens to be African American. In addition to this ill chosen comment a robo call went out to a few hundred constituents, which as article mentions can be viewed as a rallying call to potentially racist voters, or those potentially fearful of a black candidate being elected. This is focused on the linguistic aspect of the message. It doesn't necessarily discuss counterarguments or explicitly state a conclusion but presents deep seated and often unspoken fear we are witnessing from this whitehouse staff and ultimately President who make this divisive speech the norm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/01/an-app...