I totally agree that he doesn’t look like “trained hypnotist that thinks things through and has a nuanced plan for what he’s trying to communicate”. Looking at Trump and concluding “don’t worry guys, get him in a private room and he’ll drop the act and explain exactly how this all makes sense” would be a mistake.
At the same time, what he’s doing is effective, and largely for similar reasons. The important difference is that you can’t really trust him to be doing anything other than emotional gradient following, and he’s a reason to get serious and step up your game to make sure that important things aren’t underrepresented, rather than to sit back and trust that things are in the hands of an expert.
I totally agree that he doesn’t look like “trained hypnotist that thinks things through and has a nuanced plan for what he’s trying to communicate”. Looking at Trump and concluding “don’t worry guys, get him in a private room and he’ll drop the act and explain exactly how this all makes sense” would be a mistake.
At the same time, what he’s doing is effective, and largely for similar reasons. The important difference is that you can’t really trust him to be doing anything other than emotional gradient following, and he’s a reason to get serious and step up your game to make sure that important things aren’t underrepresented, rather than to sit back and trust that things are in the hands of an expert.