David Malpass's Why This Economy Needs Donald Trump

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Whether in speech, selling or writing, persuasive power is an extremely important skill to convince others to agree with author’s opinion. Rhetorical is one of the persuasive ways to convince people, which are pathos, ethos and logos. Those rhetorical elements would simply talked readers into the author’s view or argument. David Malpass uses his article “Why This Economy Needs Donald Trump” to bring out his argument that United States’ economy need Donald Trump’s administration. Donald Trump will changes the pay-to-lay system’s policy and he will restart the stagnant growth that lower tax rate and eliminate the death tax to get profits for Americans, whether are common people or upper-class people. However, Hillary Clinton had opposite view of policy which is extend the policy that had already exists. Through the following essay, I’m going to show how does author uses rhetorical elements in his argument and how does it important for argument essays. David Malpss use statistic “…economy is growing only 1.1%per year…” and the prediction from the Congressional Budget Office, not only to show slower economic growth in the past decades and future decades, but also uses this source to build the credibility for readers to believe …show more content…

He brings the word from Thomas Jefferson, who is the American founding father and the author of Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson has powerful credibility of his words. Thomas Jefferson said, “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical”. It’s an efficiency skill to convince people to “rebel” the bad situation that exist now. Otherwise, people need to “rebel” the current policy, which have already get support from Hillary Clinton. Therefore, Donald Trump is only hope that can change the stagnant situation of United

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