MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences- Election Insights 2016

Heather Hendershot MIT SHASS

On Political Rhetoric and Outsider Candidates

“As a historian of American political media, it is always my instinct to ask how we can use the past to understand the present, and from this perspective it is useful to back up and consider how the rhetorical strategies of outsider candidates in earlier elections may help to put the Trump-Clinton election into context.”

— Heather Hendershot, Professor of Comparative Media Studies

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