http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/opinion/campaign-stops/how-trump-can-save-the-gop.html?ref=opinion
In the article "How Can Trump Save The G.O.P?" the author, Sam Tanenhaus, characterizes Trump to identify with the reader. He labels Trump as an "unapologetic nationalist and occasional xenophobe" to give Trump a personality, i.e., to make him more relatable to the reader. Unapologetic in the "nationalism" implies that Trump is ruthless when defending his political independence. In addition, occasional xenophobe identifies with the fact the Trump his human, and therefore has his flaws, and with the addition of the word occasional, the author attempts to minimize it. What the author seems to be doing here with this xenophobe statement is some action to minimize Trump's racist remarks and his strict proposed immigration laws. The author is attempting to create euphemism for the fact that Trump makes racists comments with the idea that Trump has an uncontrollable, irrational fear that leads him to do these things. Ideally, this, along with the nationalism adjective is supposed to justify Trumps actions, in form of an excuse. However, in the eyes of the audience, the plan will most likely fail. The unapologetic nationalism statement carries harsh connotation, but nonetheless, its affects will likely vary. The issue comes from the xenophobe statement. By stating he his "occasionally" xenophobic implies that this phobia isn't a phobia at all, as it is controllable. Thus, readers who realize this are likely to simply consider it a weak excuse, and simply hurts Trump's image more.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that you did the different parts of the argument well. I was able to find your part two easily by the "Ideally" and the part three with the "However, in the eyes of the audience, the plan will most likely fail." I found it hard to part to as I thought it was part two, but overall, I thought you did a good job.
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ReplyDeleteJoon:
ReplyDeleteRecall that you need to first identify the author's thesis. Usually this is done for us via the SAT essay prompt; however, for these articles, we need to spend time trying to locate the author's thesis. Assuming that the author's thesis is something akin to Mr. Trump can save the GOP, then I believe your concrete detail isn't exactly the best, for it doesn't seem to be positive, nor does it seem to be directly supporting the author's thesis.