Abstract
Hillary Rodham Clinton was expected to win the 2016 U.S. presidential election, so her loss was hard to articulate for her supporters. This study examined the metaphors her supporters used to talk about her 2016 election loss. Two hundred Clinton supporters completed an online open-ended question survey about their feelings about the election. Participants relied on a number of violent and traumatic metaphors to make sense of Clinton's loss: betrayal, living in an alternate reality, large-scale disasters, wrecks, and crime. The implications of using violent and traumatic metaphors to explain the election loss are discussed.
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