I believe TRUMP is at his best in a conversation, in a private interview, in a more formal setting. There have not been that many, but it happens that I have missed none of them. I don’t know that voters in general have even been able to view him in those settings. They are pretty wonderful, given his bigger than life persona, to see him quietly unfold a story, like what changed his New York idea on abortion, for example. He is a secular man clearly, but he is a believer, as was his family.
His sister did a cameo, saying he was a mess, a stinker, as a kid. That was when Dad shipped off to military school. That story was also insightful.
That type of setting is polar opposite of the rally atmosphere, the noise and the crowd feedback, the one liners, the necessary but constant repetition of his simple themes, willingness to brawl with the powers to restore America’s “can do” spirit, because if nothing else is true, it is true that we win nothing anymore— conservatives in particular.
His constant unsubstantiated lies and claims about Cruz are intolerable. It sounds like a Hitler Youth rally, talking about the Jews. I was watching the Nuremberg trials last night and the similarities struck me. It is all the anger and the hate, directed at the innocent instead of the real culprits.