But it wasn’t an unprecedented one.
President Trump is a man who practically begs you to caricature him. His devotion to his shtick is either so complete that he rarely breaks character, or the character has simply become him over many decades.
But there are moments in which he lifts the veil, and one such moment came Thursday night.
At a campaign rally in Toledo, the president ran through a litany of hyperbolic attacks on Democrats: They want open borders, they are more extreme than ever, they are “stone-cold crazy.” It wasn’t a great departure from his usual fare, but he then for some reason stepped back for a moment. Continue reading.