Senator Mitt Romney’s Voting Statement in Trump’s First Impeachment Trial: The Roles of Agonistic Model/Anti-Model Hexads, Progressively Staged Genres, and Enactment in Advocating a Rhetoric of Renewal

Abstract

This essay argues that rhetorics of renewal seek to convince auditors to accept guilt for falling away from golden-age values and respond with mortification (not scapegoating) and hope of a promise...