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Author here. Using Donald trump wasn't as a role model but because you know who he is and that he makes lists.

Your target audience is still going to read his name, have an intuitive negative feeling, and associate that negative feeling with your article.

In other words, the audience is completely emotional and is unable to see the good traits of someone because they don't like their politics.

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> completely emotional

Nope, just emotional to varying degrees. If you think that people don't ever have emotional responses to things or are always able to separate those emotional responses from their interpretations of things, I am really curious what life experiences led you to that conclusion. It differs drastically from my interactions with people.

I actually suspect we're misinterpreting each other.

Welcome to the world of disclaimers, trigger warnings, and safe spaces.

What do any of those things have to do with the advice that someone's essay would be more rhetorically effective if they chose a different person?

It's not due to politics. It wouldn't matter of her want running for anything. It's a matter of him having so many negative traits. Generally, you choose someone with mostly positive traits for emulation.

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