"Take away your guns, destroy your Second Amendment, no religion, no anything," says Trump of Biden. "Hurt the Bible, hurt God. He's against God, he's against guns."
We should talk about this, because Trump is revealing a lot more here than his position on God and guns. 1/5
"Hurt the Bible, hurt God." It has all the elegance of "Me Tarzan, you Jane," right? And while the ability to take complex ideas and communicate them in simple terms to a mass audience is invaluable to a politician, let's get real: That is not at all what Trump is doing here. 2/5
Trump isn't using simple words to explain complex ideas because Trump is incapable of forming complex ideas in the first place. The way he speaks betrays the way he thinks. He speaks in staccato, brutish shorthand because he thinks in staccato, brutish shorthand. 3/5
His vocabulary & sentence structure is simple in the extreme because his range of thought is that simple. He is prone to conspiracy theory because making sense of the world without conspiracy is impossible for him. He lacks the patience, curiosity and mental acuity to do so. 4/5
So, if you want to know why Trump makes so many bad, even self-destructive decisions, his rhetoric tells you why. If you want to know why he can't adjust his "thinking" or "grow" in office, his rhetoric tells you why.
Simply put, the man just ain't very bright. 5/5
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