“He employed… the congregantes pessimi rhetological fallacy, being a fallacy of presuming (or asserting) that some miserable or negligent segment of a population represents the general character of the entire population… or even humanity as a whole.

It is this specific fallacy upon which much of our modern ‘news’ is founded… and popularized. It is also used to create factions within actual populations. (2020)”

— the invention of a new rhetorical fallacy