{"id":100238,"date":"2017-05-16T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=100238"},"modified":"2017-05-16T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T18:14:10","slug":"till-now-rhetorical-tools-party-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/05\/till-now-rhetorical-tools-party-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Up till now the only rhetorical tools of the Party of Trump&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026have been the Genetic Fallacy (\u201cWhat? \u00a0You believe that extremely well-documented fact? \u00a0But its reported by somebody the Dear Leader declares to be ritually impure!\u201d) and the \u201cTu Quoque\u201d (\u201cBut Hillary\/Obama\/some other Culture War enemy did it too, or something that is kind of like it if you stand on one foot, tilt your head and squint!\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Now the Trump apologist has a new tool: the Ad Baculum or Argument from the Big Stick. \u00a0\u201cHe did because he has the *power* to do it and that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d \u00a0It can cover every dumbass thing this irresponsible con man and crook does from giving away state secrets in a fit of braggadoccio to launching nukes in retaliation for insulting his tiny, tiny hands. \u00a0As long as he technically has the power to do it, there can be no question about whether he is right to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump-defending Liars for Jesus will say anything to defend their infallible pride. \u00a0When you\u2019ve lied yourself into believing that God Almighty told you how to vote and that it was not just your fallible human judgment, you can\u2019t back down from that, no matter what.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026have been the Genetic Fallacy (\u201cWhat? 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