I firmly disagree with this. You’re not the first to say it, but I’ve heard many other genuine people that didn’t sound like they were late-stage Alzheimer’s patients or stuffed up with latest talking points.

The claim “Trump is an excellent speaker” is a tool used to forgive a decade of hatred embodied in literal hundreds of thousands of people. It lets them claim they were “tricked”, and not that they looked past an outwardly obviously idiotic billionaire sociopath to the inspiring fact that he was really, really, really hateful and racist.