Derek Mooney

Somebody at Plumdee kind of pricks their own pomposity.

But even in his opening remark about the 250 years, as we say, just recently, etc., that kind of thing really works well.

And you could actually see by the reaction

from Congress.

If you think back to Trump's speech a couple of months ago, where only one side was standing and applauding on regular intervals, and they were Republicans, for most of Charles' speech, not all of it, but for most of it, he had both sides on their feet cheering.

It was, and again, but because he had delivered it in such a way, because he had covered it with a couple of jokes beforehand, because the language was very muted and the words were simple and the sentences were short, which is always very important, I think a lot of people, it had maybe slipped just past them before they realized what he'd said.

You could certainly see that the Democrats

on the floor of the House where we had got the message very, very quickly.

I think the Republicans were a little slower off the pace.

It's interesting to look at.

I think somebody has it up on YouTube at the various applause points.

They chose the floor of the House and then it shows Vance behind the King.

And Vance stops getting up as often as he was earlier because he's starting to realize, particularly the points around separation of powers, checks and balances.

Then when he goes on to talk about climate change, climate action and Ukraine, that the Republicans are a little less quick to get to their feet and Vance doesn't get to his feet at all.

Oh, no, and the points about NATO are very, very clear.

But they're also rooted in the history and they're rooted in where America comes from, the fact that it had broken away.

There's a lot of stuff.

There's elements of classic oratory.

in how the speech is constructed, in how it's delivered.

There's certainly this kind of parallelism, which is you rebelled against us, you moved away, you left the empire, but over the years we've come together and now there's more that unites us than divides us.