Jeff Shesol was not impressed with Donald Trump’s use of a teleprompter on Tuesday night:
Trump’s speech was both gaseous and inert, like radon. It was ineffective on two axes: on the Trump axis (X), where cheap insults and racially charged attacks are the measure of manly authenticity, and on the Mainstream Republican axis (Y), where rehashed Reaganisms about overregulation are a substitute for a policy platform. Both rhetorically and substantively, Trump flatlined last night. It is hard to see how this speech, or more speeches like it, will help Trump broaden his appeal.
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