It’s fairly easy to recall some of the rhetoric that dominated the 2016 presidential election. “Nasty women,” “deplorables,” and “bad hombres” are just a few of the phrases that characterized an historic election that people are still talking about. A new book with a local connection examines the impact of such figures of speech and how gender and racial politics were front and center in the 2016 presidential election.
WATCH: How race, gender, and rhetoric can affect an election
