Other than the usual troll-bot disinformation about whether seats were filled at the Trump speech in Manchester NH, Philip Bump marvels at the wanderings of the latest Trump therapy session.
For almost another five minutes, the crowd raucously applauded the president, waves of clapping fading and swelling again, over and over. I’ve seen a good number of political rallies, and the audience response at a Trump rally is unlike anything anywhere else. Trump could probably have simply said, “New Hampshire: Thank you!” walked away and left at least 50 percent of the audience perfectly content with their decision to attend.
But he didn’t. Instead, he launched into an hour-and-a-half-long speech outlining the case for his reelection. Or, to be less generous about the content: He simply launched into an hour-and-a-half-long speech.
A Trump speech is to a speech what a dog’s walk is to getting somewhere. You have a starting point and an ending point and you have a general direction, but that dog is going to meander. The more leash you give it, the further it goes, and on Thursday night in New Hampshire Trump was given about two light-years of leash.
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Perhaps he’s decompensating?
Was this Denmark story a diversion or an attempt to frame the cray-cray.
Seat fillers
But the gist is thus: a self-proclaimed rural American responded to a high-profile, widely shared tweet about assault weapons in the wake of last weekend's deadly shootings in El Paso and Dayton. The question this rural Twitter user posed: without an AR-15, how is he supposed to deal with the 30–50 feral hogs that storm into his backyard in just 3–5 minutes while his children are playing?
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