Journalists covering Donald Trump's latest round of rallies as he heads toward the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination are growing increasingly alarmed not only at the dark turn some of his proposals have taken but also at his increasing "incoherence" when he tries to explain them to his adoring fans.
Reacting to some of the latest claims the former president has made as he tours the country, Susan Glasser of the New Yorker recently wrote, "It’s easiest to understand the threat that Trump poses to American democracy most clearly when you see it for yourself. Small clips of his craziness can be too easily dismissed as the background noise of our times.”
According to the Guardian's Rachel Leingang, Glasser is on to something as Trump's rhetoric reaches new levels of "vindictiveness" while speaking in "dark, dehumanizing terms," as he rambles and jumps from topic to topic at his rallies.
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Noting the former president is much more "vengeful" this time after losing in 2020 to President Joe Biden, Leingang pointed out "he’s also, quite frequently, rambling and incoherent, running off on tangents that would grab headlines for their oddness should any other candidate say them."
"Watching a Trump speech in full better shows what it’s like inside his head: a smorgasbord of falsehoods, personal and professional vendettas, frequent comparisons to other famous people, a couple of handfuls of simple policy ideas, and a lot of non sequiturs that veer into barely intelligible stories," she suggested before adding, "... in a presidential race among two old men that’s often focused on the age of the one who’s slightly older, these campaign trail antics shed light on Trump’s mental acuity, even if people tend to characterize them differently than Joe Biden’s."
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Labeling some of Trump's "tangents" as "what one can only describe as complete nonsense," Leingang suggested reporters who have covered him for years have "become inured to Trump’s brand of speaking, either skimming over it or giving him leeway because this has always been his schtick."
And that is what makes this election even more dangerous, she proposed.
"It’s tempting to find a coherent line of attack in Trump speeches to try to distill the meaning of a rambling story. And it’s sometimes hard to even figure out the full context of what he’s saying, either in text or subtext and perhaps by design, like the 'bloodbath' comment or him saying there wouldn’t be another election if he doesn’t win this one," she wrote before warning, "But it’s only in seeing the full breadth of the 2024 Trump speech that one can truly understand what kind of president he could become if he won the election."
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