Appeal to emotions. That can be good or bad depending on what emotions are being appealed to.
In the case of Obama, there was the probability of free stuff. Come to think of it, most pathos made it seem as if it was patriotic to get free stuff. Trump's appeal was pathos, but of a different sort. No free stuff because it wasn't free and all the crooks who promised it had created a swamp of fever dreams that needed to be drained, like a pus filled wound needs to be drained. (How's that for pathos?)

Another old joke: (forgive me, they keep me from insanity)
California voters are like granola, once you eliminate the nuts and fruits, all you have left are the flakes.

Hello Olduglycarl,
"The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning." Aristotle
Respectfully,
O.A.

Unfortunately, I don't think Trump fits into any of those categories. He is the Junk Yard Dog. That why all the Republican candidates got torn up and thrown to the curb.

so we are saying pretty much the same thing- its the idea of Trump, not the reality of him

Oh, but he has, every time he said anything it invaded their "safe" space.
($&^% them and their idiotic anti-liberty statist rubbish.)

Colorado did go for the evil hag, I do believe.

And they protest just the idea of a Trump. He isnt even president yet, and therefore has done nothing at all to complain about

That's right...forgot that quote...thanks

Lot of "frosted Flakes" in Colorado and dopeaphornia.

As AR's tragic character Gail Wynand said in The Fountainhead: "Make them itch and make them cry and you've got them."

Me dino didn't invent "angry snowflakes."
Me dino have never seen no "angry corn flakes" you speak of.
But me dino done seen some "frosted flakes," though.
Uh,-huh, me have.

The stuff of recurring nightmares...PTSD.

I'm glad you amended that to just "flakes"...I could see "angry corn flakes" but it's hard to imagine "angry Snow flakes".

Scary that the liberal emotional appeals have traction in this society now.

Yes, logos was the grounding attraction to her philosophy.

Her supporters were made in her image, that was always the silent intent of the perverted left.

Instead of ascending into consciousness they instead tried to level the playing field by making everyone like them. It's the same will all manner of perversion.

Interesting take but her pathos was based upon liberal nonsense crafted for the mindless useless idiots her kind created.
I think the author takes a more traditional approach to these concepts.

Me dino just playing with a thought here tongue in cheek~
Lacking both ehtos and logos, the old raspy-voiced evil hag loser still possessed the pathos to create a loud minority of very angry snowflakes.
Or just plain "flakes," but there ya go . . .

I think she would think logos would win, but given AS had no traction of note, she would have to now agree that its pathos.

And her supporters, rioting in the streets and all, arent any better than she is. And THEY complained Trump supporters were violent ?

I think the author got it wrong relative to this election. Hillary was big on emotion in that she appealed almost totally on emotion (pathos). But, she was weak on integrity (ethos). And her Logos appeals were filled with empty words.

Trump concentrated more on Logos. His appeals made sense. (if you dont have borders you dont have a country- for example). He had better ethos than crooked hillary, and was a more confident and presentable person, especially when his family was involved.

So he won.

Considering her childish sore-loser behavior on the night of the election, I suspect your speculation might have a better foundation than one might normally suppose.

She fails at alllllll things human. She failed "monkey see, monkey do" 101 in parasitical progressive Kindergarten class.

If you mean she is a failure at ethos, logos and pathos, I agree.