"Despite the potential pitfalls of being a rhetorical flip-flopper, speechwriters keep unleashing the device. Maybe that's because it seems to enact the 'change' message that both parties are trying to claim as their own. There's nothing that suggests out with the old and in with the new like a phrase that does just that."
Juliet Lapidos in Slate explains the popularity of antimetabole in political speeches.
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