As demagogues go, Donald Trump is not a very good one. I’ve been studying his speeches on YouTube, and what a sloppy orator he is. He can blow for an entire hour in a loose oleaginous confabulation of detached sentences drifting toward crescendo and then swerving away, non-sequiturs segueing into non-sequiturs as his audience waits for the message (They are stupid, we are smart, let’s be great again) as he brags about his numbers, his success, coasting, camping, posing, lounging against the lectern, scowling, hands outstretched in his trademark “What gives?” gesture. Sloppy. As he himself would say, “Unbelievable!” His audience expects him to be yuuuuuge, and instead he comes off as the most irritating cabdriver you ever had to listen to.

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