Rhetorical Follies: The Immigration Debate
Posted on: June 26th, 2007“When I first started teaching college rhetoric in the early 1990’s, I used to get looks of exasperation from my colleagues whenever I said Ronald Reagan was a brilliant rhetorician. “His rhetoric, not his policies,” I’d tell them.
Likewise, one has to concede that in the immigration debate of 2007, the opponents of immigration reform have buried the supporters of the U.S. Senate’s “Grand Bargain” by a landslide. This has been in large part due to the pro-immigration supporters’ rhetorical missteps and failure to recognize the sentiments of the audience: the moderate and usually silent American majority.”
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