Rhetorical Analysis Of Unfit To Be President

In “Unfit to be President”: 58 House Democrats want to start debating the impeachment of Donald Trump by Ezra Klein, he discusses the possibility of current U.S. president Donald Trump being impeached is a good thing for democrats. Klein claims that it would be a waste of time and effort for democrats. He says this because they don’t have enough support to complete impeachment and impeachment is a near impossible task. He discusses how Rep. Al Green has a proposal to impeach Trump, which he says is well intentioned but would never get through Congress. The article is very effective at convincing the reader of not impeaching Trump. Klein is able to do this through his use of ethos. One example of ethos used in the article is when he quotes Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein. The quote says “‘while the voices in the ratification debates were not entirely consistent and often less than precise, they can be fairly summarized in this way: If a president were to engage in some egregious violation of the public trust while in office, he could be impeached, convicted, and removed from office.’ But what, precisely, counts as an

Klein used a rogerian structure to set up his argument. This is seen with how in the beginning of the article he describes that the idea of impeaching trump is floating around Washington. Then he describes the validity of the possible impeachment proposals. After that he gives his claim for why impeachment isn’t possible. Then he concludes the article by giving facts for his claim and why democrats would benefit from not impeaching Trump. This style of argument is very strong in that it shows how all the democrats could benefit from not impeaching the president. Also Klein adds questions to the arguments for impeachment in the beginning making the reader question the possibility of impeachment before he even gives his counter