presidency , to argue that he actually won the popular vote as well , evincing a concern that speaks to personal charisma rather than legal rule ( Blake 2017 ).
Conclusion
In the WoW universe , oppressed minorities eventually rebelled against the corrupt Garrosh Hellscream at the end of the Mists of Pandaria expansion , overthrowing him in the Siege of Orgrimmar raid instance , with Vol ’ jin , a leader of a troll race based on Caribbean lore and traditions , becoming the new Warchief and a woman , Sylvanas , succeeding him . Both represent an accession to power of outcasts and minorities who within the game rise from being oppressed and distrusted to faction leadership . Much of the rhetoric directed against Sylvanas , not only by the opposing Alliance faction but also by male characters of the Horde , resembled criticisms of Clinton in the United States 2016 election , especially in the rhetorical construction of feminine leadership as untrustworthy . What this suggests is that in games and in the real world , racial and gender oppression intersect in similar manners to generate negative perceptions of highly qualified female and minority leadership candidates or leaders . While the Blizzard developers could award Lady Sylvanas the position of Warchief in the imaginary world of Azeroth , and show the effectiveness of her rational pragmatism , Donald Trump , a figure similar to Garrosh Hellscream in rhetorical use of charismatic rather than logical argument , won the 2016 United States Presidential election , albeit not the popular vote . Rhetorical analysis shows that neither the leadership struggles within Azeroth nor in the United States are sui generis , but rather that both are grounded in common persuasive strategies that can be brought into focus by comparative analysis . One particularly interesting feature observable in both contexts is a rise of a rhetoric of female leadership specifically grounded in rational or logical argument . Given that women have limited access to traditional leadership except in a few systems of dynastic or hereditary rule , and that charismatic leadership is often grounded in the dynamics of masculinity , rationality may become a key rhetorical underpinning of female and minority leadership both in the United States ( notably in the cases of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ) as well as Azeroth . Examining game and political universes in parallel allows exploration of the rhetoric of leadership in a wide range of worlds , both physical and imaginary , revealing common tropes and habits of thought through the ways they are realized across different contexts .
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