David Frum

they actually probably couldn't tell you because they just do it.

They're in it.

They just do it with their whole heart, soul, body, also brain.

But if you were to take the people who become tennis instructors, they know exactly what they've done.

That's why they're not champions is because they're doing it all with their head.

And we have seen politicians, and they can go quite far, like a Richard Nixon,

No natural affinity for people, no natural charisma, but a great ability to analyze the game.

And that, I think, is the kind of politician that Vance is.

Trump has a kind of instinctual knowledge of human nature at its worst.

And he is human nature at its worst.

And he...

The deep wellsprings of the worst in human beings recognizing him, a permission for themselves.

But he's not a cerebral politician.

And even someone as smart as Bill Clinton wasn't a cerebral politician only.

He was cerebral too.

But Vance is like Nixon, cerebral only.

So he's thinking these things out.

And he's got kind of a leaky shop.

So some of the things he's thinking do make their way into the media.

I just want to stress, he's got a feel for the worst.