Audience Description Post

1. My typical audience includes 'millennials' of voting age (18-29) in the United States, who voted Democrat or otherwise have left-leaning political views, and encompass any and all races, genders, religions, etc. This is a diverse pool of readers to target.

2. My imagined reader is a poor white college student, who feels anxious and unhappy about the results of the presidential election. They voted for Hillary Clinton, who they thought had a guaranteed victory, and are stunned and betrayed by Trump's upset. They want to do whatever they can to minimize the damage of a Trump presidency and protect themselves and more vulnerable friends, but aren't sure how.

3. This person and I both feel nervous about a Trump presidency, and want to do something to take action. We have friends of variously demographics that we want to protect from Trumps policies as well as emboldened fascists. We agree on taking action on the principle that we band together, and create solidarity across demographics in order to present a stronger united front.

4. We disagree about the degree of action that needs to be taken to prevent harm; while my viewer may solely support peaceful dialogues, outcries and protests falling within the lines of social acceptability, I support a mix of public pressure through those avenues and more direct actions, such as forming local organizations to strengthen communal resistance and direct physical suppression of fascists given the precedent of fascists only bending under the threat of organized, heavy backlash.

5. My attitude toward use of violence may prove insurmountable to my audience, and as such I will tailor my argument to present those tactics as methods of self defense against fascism, rather than senseless bloodshed. I will more strongly draw on historical precedent to move audiences past a "fighting evil violently makes you bad as the evil' rhetoric and consider how the failures of the current system (see: the election) are also inevitably meant to doom a resistance based solely in societally paved avenues of protest (police-coordinated marches, for example).

6. We will find common ground in our need to stand together, and prevent the tide of fascist neo-nazi rhetoric currently surging in the United States.

7. I will not concede to the listeners on the principle that suppression of fascism can be achieved without instilling visceral fear in fascists; I too strongly believe that simply adhering to 'safer' forms of protest is too weak to have any effect on emboldened fascists.

8. I will acknowledge and respond to objections directly after I outline my goals for change and plans for methods of direct action against fascism, towards the middle of the paper.