posted by Dr Winston O'BoogieThat’s why I say he’s not good in the traditional sense. But he knows his audience and has a top notch radar for measuring its reaction in real time. His “meandering” (to me) is purposefully done because he is catering to what he perceives the audience wants at exactly that moment. That is what makes him an effective speaker. If you already love him, which everyone in his audience does, he essentially is having an off-the-cuff conversation with you.
No one can deny he’s a great marketer, and since he can do that he doesn’t have to be a great speaker. He knows his audiences (and the ones at these rallies are your local, not very educated folks, so fucking idiots), and the way he goes about it is a way that they will eat up.
Some of his hyperbole gets overanalyzed because of his track record from his first term, and that’s his own damn doing.