Newt, like many highly intelligent people, can be blisteringly honest without even trying to wound.
I’ve known people like that. They don’t ALWAYS mean it in a malicious way. They just don’t filter their thoughts through the heavy filter of diplomacy the way most of us think we have to do. Sometimes, they DO mean to strike like a cobra.
Quick and with great precision.
I think you pegged it with Newt.
However, he is brighter and better educated than Trump. Trump’s language skills are not the greatest and certainly not the worst. Most newspapers are written at the 4th grade level.
Agreed, but in his quick and precise wit and wisdom, Newt should be very aware that one of the GREATEST problems in the “establishment” (generally institutions) and specifically in the D.C. government, is ruling elitism. Newt in his communicative skills should balance remarks like this by making it VERY clear that
1) ruling elitism IS a BIG problem in D.C.,
2) the American People ARE generally smarter than the average corrupt politician in D.C. and
3) putting something in simple terms is more of a sign of the speaker’s grasp on the subject and that he speaker (like Trump) does NOT put himself above anyone else.