I remember Reagan, and I don’t remember such grinding personal eviscerating indictments and attacks.
I still like the speech...
:-)
“I remember Reagan, and I don’t remember such grinding personal eviscerating indictments and attacks.”
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You’re absolutely right about that part. I remember Reagan as well, by the way. I think I was referring to the absolute knockout points, things like Hillary’s slogan “I’m with Hillary.” Versus, Trump saying: “I’m with Americans.” The logical riffs about greatness at the end, and so on. Thank goodness, he is going to the prepared speeches instead of just shooting from the lip, bc when a speaker, any speaker repeats himself 15 times without a point and a crescendo, it’s a turnoff.
I was so fearful that we’d never get such effective speeches like this one and the Orlando aftermath.
If you don’t mind my double-ping, this is one of the well-cadenced moments in the speech that caused me to say Reaganesque. (Certainly, as you point out, there were grinding attacks, but this is very like RR):
“Because it’s not just the political system that’s rigged. It’s the whole economy.
It’s rigged by big donors who want to keep down wages.
It’s rigged by big businesses who want to leave our country, fire our workers, and sell their products back into the U.S. with absolutely no consequences for them.
It’s rigged by bureaucrats who are trapping kids in failing schools.
It’s rigged against you, the American people.”
That is a perfect voice over for a political ad, y’know.