Political Argument in a Polarized Age by Scott F. Aikin

Author:Scott F. Aikin [Talisse, Robert B. and Aikin, Scott F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

This is pretty dramatic stuff, and the rhetorical strategy is to enable the mass of outrageous commitments to overwhelm. The sheer quantity of claims, combined with the intensity of outrage that they provoke, takes on an exasperating quality of its own.

In all these cases, the effect is not only that audiences are distracted from the actual views proposed by the other side, they are also prevented from even hearing those views in their non-distorted forms. In repudiating opponents as if they are all cut from the same untenable and hapless cloth of ridiculous views, further exchange with them is foreclosed. More importantly, the façade of argument is employed as a way to mug to one’s allies. This in turn strokes their in-group biases, leading inevitably to the polarization that was discussed in the previous chapter.

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