It’s amazing what happens when you fight back, ain’t it?
As another poster noted on another thread; Ronald Reagan was there for HIS time, and was what was needed then.
Trump is here for THIS time, and is what is needed now.
Pretty much spot-on, I’d say.
I love it when you use whore-speak!
Abraham Lincoln was considered a great speaker. But he wasn’t. He WROTE beautifully, and his speeches are amazing, but he had a high-pitched somewhat screechy voice. We think the speeches are awesome because we READ them. (BTW, Ditto William Jennings Bryan, who is pretty boring).
Lincoln with his voice would never have worked on radio. But Franklin D. Roosevelt had a honey-sweet voice and a presence on radio that came across as though he was everyone’s best friend. But FDR was in a wheelchair-—something very few people knew. He would never have worked in late 20th century politics with television. Probably it wasn’t til Greg Abbott actually broke the barriers that a person in a wheelchair could be considered a leader.
Reagan came along at the perfect time: the age of television. He had a photographic memory so he never had to look at the teleprompter. Unlike Trump, he had perfect dramatic timing and never stepped on an applause line. His years of memorizing scripts meant that he was fluid in his delivery. And most of all, the big three nets had to carry EVERY presidential speech and did so without ANY panel of idiots attacking the speech before it was given, or dissing it afterwards.
But Reagan would not be effective today. He was way too nice. I liken him to a Muhammad Ali-—terrific boxer. But we are in the age of a cage match, where you need elbows, head, knees. Trump is that guy.