{"id":55654,"date":"2020-08-28T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/in-rnc-2020-speech-trump-was-the-one-thing-he-usually-isnt-boring\/"},"modified":"2020-08-28T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T05:10:00","slug":"in-rnc-2020-speech-trump-was-the-one-thing-he-usually-isnt-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/in-rnc-2020-speech-trump-was-the-one-thing-he-usually-isnt-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"#In RNC 2020 speech, Trump was the one thing he usually isn\u2019t: Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#In RNC 2020 speech, Trump was the one thing he usually isn\u2019t: Boring<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 28, 2020 |<\/span> 1:10am |<\/span> Updated August 28, 2020 | 1:14am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Sorry, I have to say it: After a mostly brilliant four days that engaged the emotions and advanced a surprising and interesting case for his reelection, Donald Trump came out and laid an egg in what may have been the worst convention speech of my lifetime.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may have been a headache,\u201d Bob Hope sang in his signature tune, \u201cbut you never were a bore.\u201d Last night, for the first time in memory, Donald Trump was a bore.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that he had nothing to say. He had everything to say. And he said it. And said it again. And did it in the same tone of voice. Which went like this. And then like that. And then like this again. La. Dee Dah. De Doo.<\/p>\n

Trump evoked every single theme<\/a> of the convention and then some. The themes were good, but they were good over the four nights because they had been presented carefully and argued artfully. That was not the case for this, the most important speech of Trump\u2019s life so far.<\/p>\n

There was no flow, no argument, no central core. He praised himself and he attacked Joe Biden, just as you\u2019d expect. But he didn\u2019t build a case for himself or a case against Biden \u2014 and it\u2019s the construction of such cases that provide the dramatic structure a major speech needs to engage both the head and the heart.<\/p>\n

For someone who relishes drama, Trump provided none.<\/p>\n

Instead, we got laundry lists featuring the kinds of claimed accomplishments that are usually the province of a tiresome State of the Union address.<\/p>\n

And when it came to going after Biden, he couldn\u2019t find a common thread. Once again, rather than building an indictment that would then not only justify but hammer home his climactic soundbite \u2014 \u201cYou won\u2019t be safe in Biden\u2019s America\u201d \u2014 he provided a dog\u2019s breakfast.<\/p>\n

He sought to take advantage of Biden\u2019s quote earlier this week about how he\u2019d lock the country down if the science<\/a> said he should.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Biden lockdown,\u201d Trump said, would lead to depression, not only economic but personal, in the form of addiction and suicides. \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s plan is not a solution for the virus, it\u2019s a surrender to the virus,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

This is a powerful line of argument, but it requires elaboration and explanation, which he and his team likely didn\u2019t really want to go into because it would have meant having to talk more about his response. He did talk about it, both praising himself in retrospect for having led what he called the greatest mobilization since World War II and anticipating the successful deployment of a vaccine by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

But then, just as he did in the worst weeks of April and May, he found himself stumbling in his self-justification. At one point he garbled his words and said, \u201cThanks to advances, we have pioneered the fatality rate\u201d \u2014 when he wanted to say that pioneering advances have led to an 80 percent drop in the fatality rate since April.<\/p>\n

A convention speech watched by tens of millions is not the greatest time to slip up in this way. You don\u2019t want your most memorable moment to be a mistake. In 1980, Jimmy never recovered from the moment in his convention speech when he referred to former Vice President Hubert Humphrey as Hubert Horatio Hornblower \u2014 a fictional sea captain.<\/p>\n

The case against Biden then turned into a case against the radical left and the crime wave. This was the most disappointing aspect of the speech, because it\u2019s the most important argument he can make and the one that might actually do the most damage to his rival. And here, too, he wandered all around, from public safety to statues to cancel culture.<\/p>\n

If you read op-eds like this one, you understood how they were connected. If you don\u2019t, it would have seemed bewildering and disconnected.<\/p>\n

Trump can still win this thing, without question. He just didn\u2019t do himself any favors last night, to put it mildly.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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