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Beyond the Rhetoric: Trump Brings Back Founding Culture
by William Gairdner

Commentary

A good friend amusingly described Donald Trump as “the mouth that roared,” attempting to define him as ineffectual. But he’s the farthest thing from that. In an age of slick television and internet imagery that has preempted the centrality of the spoken word, he’s a startling throwback.

With words alone—in spontaneous off-the-cuff remarks, in unscripted speeches, and on Twitter—he’s a fount of surprise. Sometimes, he seems to surprise even himself, and could as well reply to a question: “How do I know what I think, until I see what I say?” That disturbs some listeners, but delights others.

But regardless, fans and foes alike the world over hang on his every word, and every word he thinks he said, or didn’t say, as the world’s media rise and fall in reaction to his moods, wondering what he will say or do next to shock their political sensibilities.

It all began with the stunned surprise of the career officers and experts complacently steering Steamship America to a more socialist destiny, when he single-handedly crashed the control room, grabbed the wheel, and began turning the ship back from the brink toward which it had been heading—like every other Western democracy—for more than a century.

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