I think you are right. He was very good at the airport in Laredo the other day. Have not watched the Iowa rally yet. will catch it later tonight.
GG:
You are in for a treat.
That said, I laugh nervously because he is so frighteningly authentic...and so typically insecure.
He's from Jamaica Estates Queens. The well-to-do neighborhood of Queens. But still a very down-to-earth place.
Ordinary...ethnic.
A million light years from Manhattan.
When I lived in Manhattan a million years ago, there was an old saying that the greatest distance on earth was that from the "outer boroughs" (i.e. Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island) to Manhattan.
I was a hick from South Georgia who spent my career on Wall St. I know it is easier to go from a small town in So GA to Wall St than from the outer boroughs.
Southerners are naturally dignified...Outer Boroughs folks, not so much.
Which is why Trump registers with ordinary folks.
Trump isn't just ordinary, he's tacky. And folks like that. They forgive that...because he's not pretending to be someone he's not.
Like all REAL Noo Yawkers, he is the original article...what you see is what you get.