“His rhetoric has been shown to be the same hackneyed product of political speechwriters, his communication skills very similar to that of any good news anchor (’Just read the news, Barry’),”
Yep, Ted Baxter could do it just as well.
“His opponents have struggled, largely unsuccessfully, to make allegations of radicalism stick”
Wrong! Millions are now active that never would have been if oblablah (lower case intended) wasn’t such a radical. His opponents didn’t have to make any allegations stick....he has shown himself to be just what many knew him to be. More are waking up every day.