Donald Trump is a stump speaker. His manner and rhetoric when speaking to Congress, as he did last Tuesday night, is the same manner and rhetoric he uses when speaking to ordinary people at a country fairgrounds.

Indeed when he speaks to the members of Congress he’s talking past them to the ordinary people who support him, many of whom hold Congress in contempt.

As for the speech, Lincoln it wasn’t. President Trump’s speech comes to nearly 10,000 words. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was 272 words.

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