I'm not going to laud everything Trump has said or done. I'm not going to defend his character, although the spiritual rhetoric I've heard him use lately sounds a lot more like that coming from a believer than the stuff I hear from the other side, which sounds like they're trying to talk the way conservatives and Christians talk but they only know it from how liberals and non-believers tell each other how Christians and conservatives talk.
But I used to say my biggest complaint about him qua president was he wasn't very presidential. He was crude, inelegant in speech, prone to trolling in social media, and could have done a better job neutralizing the negative spin the MSM put on his works and words.
Now, though?
He's the most patriotic president we've had since Regan. He doesn't just express a love for America and a respect for hoi polloi at large, he does so consistently. He bothers to show up to meet the people. And when he faces criticism, he may make fun of career politicians who still haven't learned the lesson about glass houses and throwing rocks, but he doesn't call concerned citizens bad names, nor does he call their race into question for daring to be circumspect and nuanced about their own political opinions.
That's a lot more presidential behavior than we've seen in a long time.
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