Donald Trump’s speech tonight was not exactly poetry, but it was clear and surprisingly coherent. It was also clever, sort of. And it might just help him win the election in November. People find it disturbing, but Trump’s anti-globalism, America First and law-and order-focus plays very well in America in 2016. Americans are less and less interested in hearing platitudes about ‘freedom’ these days; they want to hear banalities about law and order instead. Because they are more worried about civil breakdown and their economic security than anything else.
Freddy Gray and Scott McConnell discuss the American tragedy with Isabel Hardman:
After the text leaked a few hours before the speech, the big question was how would Trump deliver it? Would he be well-rehearsed? Will he use a prompter? Or will he blow everyone’s minds and do something completely different to the script? The answer is he didn’t do too badly.
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