Maybe this is all Aaron Sorkin's fault.
The Big Speech has always been a powerful tool in politics, and no format is more consistently attention-getting than the public emperor-has-no-clothes soliloquy. Speechifying probably peaked in American politics in the second half of the 19th century, when (aided by the lack of widespread literacy or any form of electronic entertainment) the
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Why Jeff Flake's Anti-Trump Speech Was Meaningless
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