SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT TRUMP’S CINCINNATI OHIO RALLY.
Posted by Pointman on August 2, 2019 · 3 Comments
I watched the speech Trump gave at his recent rally on Thursday 1st August 2019. I learnt the lesson early that it’s a futile exercise in the main to read summaries or highlights of his speeches by fake news simply because of all the lies, both of omission and commission, but also the partisan spin that would be imparted to most reports. I’m afraid the only way to get a fair impression is to watch his speeches in full.
I don’t watch all of his speeches, but some things came across in that particular speech. The first is that compared to the 2016 candidate, he’s much more polished as an orator. He knows how to work a crowd of thousands. His manner of expressing himself was and never will be Lincolnesque, it’ll always be Trump. I’ve no problem with that since the oratorical gifts Lincoln had are given to precious few human beings. Churchill, no slouch himself in that area, knew all of Lincoln’s major speeches by heart. If you want to get good at something, you study those who’re the best at it.
There were 17,000 people in the packed stadium with a few more thousand outside who couldn’t get in, and what was patently visible was that he made a direct connection to them. He knows who his bedrock supporters are, and it’s to those he addressed his remarks, not fake news who’d distort whatever he said. Some of them had queued for over 24 hours in sweltering heat to get in. Joe Biden ran a rally in a school hall and less than 500 people bothered to turn up. So much for the great white hope of the Dem establishment.
A few pan shots of the crowd showed they were not the usual knee-jerk party faithful, but a vast diversity of ordinary Americans and workers – some guys who’d made a point of wearing their miner’s helmet to it, a black caucus there to support, men and women of all ages and if you had to place a demographic on them, I think heartland America covers it. There are a lot more of them than there are virtue signalling SJWs. The banners behind him had three simple words on them – jobs, jobs, jobs. They’re the people who’ve been ill-served for decades by the political establishment of either persuasion, and that’s what they really want, and that’s what he’s delivered for them.
Before moving onto the messages he was driving home, a few incidents showing how he deported himself that quite frankly endeared him to those present. On two occasions, various loons who’d snuck inside the auditorium tried to interrupt him and succeeded. He simply stopped talking and he and the crowd waited in relative silence while they were removed by law enforcement. After each one, there was rapturous applause and he went straight back to what he was saying. Whatever point they were intending to make, it backfired badly. It was like watching a badly behaved drunk being removed from a bar.
At another point, he spotted somebody having a medical problem in the crowd and stopped talking and pointed at them, with a request for a doctor to attend them. Apparently, the heat was brutal. He waited patiently until the first responders got to the person in distress and when they’d been attended to, there was a huge wave of applause for them. I suppose he could have ignored that person and just kept on talking, but he didn’t. He did the decent thing that anybody in the auditorium would have done.
He really cares about people. One time, a kid living on the West coast needed specialist medical treatment that could only be had on the East coast, but because of all the bulk of medical support equipment the kid needed while being transported, no commercial airline could move him. He heard of the problem and sent his personal jet with seats ripped out to get the kid transported. No bill and I wish you luck with the treatment.
Moving to the policy issues, he hammered home the numbers which by any economic metric you choose to pick, puts the economy in better shape than it’s been in nearly 50 years. Growth, jobs, investment and the Dow Jones index at an all time record high. New factories being built and near dead industries that had DNR stamped on their foreheads coming back from a near death experience caused by deliberate over regulation. It’s almost like Trump has been wielding a magic wand.
On the domestic politics front, he firmly welded AOC’s “squad” as being the leadership of the Dems, with the attendant taint that all they were offering was socialism, which because that’s virtually equivalent to communism in America, makes them practically unelectable. Trust me, that’s a nail he’ll keep hammering home over the next eighteen months. Poor Nancy, she didn’t get control of that small wild child fraction of her party which has been massively over publicised by a liberal MSM who love their extreme policies. The extremist squad have become the common perception of what the Dem party is all about, so wave goodbye to the middle ground voter.
All the other talking points were just gravy on the steaks he was serving up. Stronger armed forces, a muscular foreign policy, no late term abortion or post birth infanticide, shafting countries like China who’d been dumping cheap shoddy goods that were destroying American industrial infrastructure and of course building the wall to keep out illegal immigration.
Throw in a few items like vets getting needed treatment immediately, an end to generous federal financing of sanctuary cities that were imploding, a war on the opioid crisis that’s currently killing more Americans in a year than died in the whole of the Vietnam war and mentioning the forbidden God word more than once – it’s a formidable mix of achievements and promises, and his track record is he delivers on his promises.
Just looking at the attendance numbers clapping and cheering him on, and the pure energy of the event, the Dems, especially after the dismal showing of their candidates in the debates, have a huge mountain to climb.
©Pointman
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