Our expectations were way too high so it's harder to see how big it was. But let's walk down the logical brick road tonight.
Did you know Trump's speech was aired almost in its entirety on CNN, CSPAN and Fox News? Who watches those networks? Not us. We don't trust the MSM.
So Trump has new eyeballs on him. What was he supposed to do? Come out in loud, aggressive fashion in front of D's who were already brainwashed to believe Trump was a madman?
Instead he comes out calm, collected, thoughtful, nonthreatening in ANY way. This is a marketing tactic called "pattern interruption." People expect to see you perform one way so they already have preset rebuttals for what they THINK you're going to do.
But you come out a completely DIFFERENT way and confuse them...they didn't "game plan" for that. So instead of Trump looking like a raging maniac that the MSM pushed to their sheep, Trump looks shockingly sane.
And guess what? He spoke for a whole hour and hasn't stuttered and stumbled once. No slurred speech. No forgotten thoughts or sentences that started in one way and ended up no where.
This is important...because the people who watch the MSM are used to seeing 2 years of dementia. Now they circle back to Trump for the first time in probably 2 years and hear his voice very differently.
Since CNN was watching, no mention of election fraud. Did Trump sell out? No. He has to keep the cameras rolling. He mentions stolen elections, and the cameras go off, the new people don't hear the rest of Trumps words.
And what's Trump saying? He's saying the SAME THING he said and warned them about on the campaign trail. Back then they thought he was lying...now they know he was always telling the truth.
He just won a larger audience of voters now. But this is only the beginning...
Good post!
Another thing I want to mention is- he got the attention of a wider audience with all the hype. That was the point. Then he talks about how bad things are going to get. Very somber-dead serious. This was not for us. This was for everybody else sitting on their butts complaining about inflation and corruption but continuing not to bother to vote or vote Democrat because they always have. I know so many people who didn’t vote this midterm election. “Nah, waste of time” they say. How many do you know? I know a bunch of diehard Dems as well. Miserable people but what will it take for them to wake up? Personal pain and suffering. When you can’t afford food.... when gas is too high to go anywhere, when you realize you’ve lost all that equity in your home, when there are rolling blackouts, when your stupid, expensive EV is just sitting there as you stress over the electric bill and can’t find a place to charge that isn’t 2-3 hrs long and so on. This was overhyped for a reason. His tone was serious for a reason. Wake up.
Somber was the very word I used to describe the tone of the speech.