"I have it on good authority (i.e. off the record) that leading conservatives have chortled with joy as they watched their Democratic counterparts campaign by reciting their best facts and figures, as if they were trying to prevail in a high school debate tournament."
Remember when George W Bush’s speeches were ridiculed by Democrats? They seemed to the “intellectuals” to be composed of strings of non sequiturs. In fact they were carefully chosen sound bites, each of which triggered a familiar need or desire. Like advertisement slogans. The populace’s attention span is short. Go Brief! Go Acronym! Go Emoji!
Remember when George W Bush’s speeches were ridiculed by Democrats? They seemed to the “intellectuals” to be composed of strings of non sequiturs. In fact they were carefully chosen sound bites, each of which triggered a familiar need or desire. Like advertisement slogans. The populace’s attention span is short. Go Brief! Go Acronym! Go Emoji!
What about Obama's "Yes We Can" ?
Trump's CPAC speech was all kinds of terrifying.
We've got our work cut out for us...