'Garbage' and a 'Criminal': Deutsche Welle on Trump's Words About Ilhan Omar
Deutsche Welle reports that Donald Trump has described Congress member Ilhan Omar as a 'garbage' and a 'criminal,' and that she has long been the target of angry verbal attacks from the US president. Insults aimed at a legislator's person rather than her votes are their own kind of argument: they ask supporters to react to the woman instead of the record.
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There's a difference in genre between attacking a member of Congress over her position on an issue and reducing her to a single contemptuous noun.
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The genre matters, but the more useful question may be why the attacks keep returning to one member in particular rather than to her arguments.