In the
most recent “Bottom Line With Boris”, the most startling argumentative
failing is obvious: no argument is made.
His thesis is that if Congress passes the (wildly unpopular)
GOP tax plan, positive economic indicators will go up. Yet, he does not make a single argument to
that effect, even in broad strokes.
Rather, he touts recent positive economic numbers and then
asserts, without support, that we should “expect for these positive trends to
not just continue but to accelerate.”
This is akin to a member of the Jellybean Manufacturers
Association saying, “Over the last decade, life expectancy has gone up. If our proposal to include jellybeans at
every meal is heeded by Americans, expect this trend to continue.”
In other words, it’s as elementary a rhetorical “fail” as
one is ever likely to see.
