First of all, I could barely stay
awake. It was only a 25-minute speech, and it’s not like 9:25 p.m. is my
bedtime, but President Donald Trump’s affect was so strained, his rhetoric so
ploddingly predictable, and his “evidence” so vaporous that my mind started
wandering at around 9:13. I wondered if it was only me, because I’m obviously













