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The Energy of Trump’s MSG Rally

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President Donald J. Trump addresses his remarks Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019, at Turning Point USA’s 5th annual Student Action Summit at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

In The New York Sun, Rebecca Sugar explains that Democrats’ refusal to see the energy and passion behind Trump’s campaign, as exemplified by his recent Madison Square Garden (MSG) rally, will hurt them in the future. Americans are craving Trump’s message, and the energy of those he brings along. She writes:

The sound was overwhelming when entrepreneur and former presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, and investor, chief executive and prospective Department of Government Efficiency director, Elon Musk, were introduced.

It was louder still when the former (and perhaps future) president, Donald Trump, came onto the stage.

These three political outsiders with business resumes and bold, powerful personalities have become symbols of the MAGA mission to fight the establishment and to bring skill, competence, common sense and measurable results back to public service.

Before any of these men said a word on stage, they created an extraordinary energy of uproarious confidence in an arena full of fighters looking for leadership. Critics of the rally decried the “brotastic” vibe, but failed to understand the people’s yearning for strength.

Stillness in a crowd of tens of thousands may be harder to achieve than deafening noise, and it is distinguishable from quiet. Dull delivery of a scripted speech can produce a polite, quiet, detached reaction from an audience, but stillness happens when people are fully engaged and moved to silence. I heard it only once when a man called David Rem took the microphone.

Mr. Rem recalled a childhood memory shortly after the death of his father in 1974. He opened his front door at Queens, New York to find Fred Trump, Donald’s father, standing in front of him.

He had stopped by to let Mrs. Rem know he had paid her three children’s tuitions, so they could stay in their school. “Who would do that?” David emotionally asked the crowd as he told the story. Everyone there knew the answer wasn’t a government agency, or program.

There was no sound or movement in the room which had an energy of its own. The crowd had a moment of nostalgic stillness recalling a time when community wasn’t a digital experience, or a government-designated protected class based on immutable characteristics or sexual preference.

It was a group of people living in a neighborhood, caring for each other. The people miss community.

Another energetic phenomenon occurred when both the former presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and political commentator and writer, Tucker Carlson, spoke.

It happened when Mr. Kennedy talked about the left’s abandonment of free speech and civil liberties, and lamented its embrace of war.

It happened again toward the end of his remarks when he spoke about the nation’s health. His sincerity and passion simultaneously animated and subdued the listener. It is the feeling one gets when truth is being spoken by a truth-teller: it energizes you and stops you in your tracks at the same time.

That same feeling reverberated around the room when Mr. Carlson described why President Trump has earned such broad support. “The liberation he has brought to us is the liberation from the obligation to tell lies,” he said. “Donald Trump has made it possible for the rest of us to tell the truth about the world around us.”

Those sentences were at once both a jolt of restorative affirmation and a calming reassurance for the frustrated, betrayed and gaslit. If you were in the room you could feel that 20,000 souls hardly knew whether to scream “Amen” or to close their eyes and breathe deeply with relief. The people want more honesty and less hypocrisy. They hate the lies.

Democrats can continue to pretend to see Hitler and fascist armies around every MAGA corner but that story doesn’t allow them to see why so many people would pack an arena at New York City for Trump.

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