WACO, Texas — Within the first huge rally of his 2024 presidential marketing campaign, Donald Trump didn’t dwell on the symbolism of talking in Waco amid the thirtieth anniversary of the lethal siege there that also serves as a right-wing cri de coeur towards federal authority.
He didn’t should.
This speech, like so many if his speeches, was a mixture of lies, hyperbole, superlatives, invectives, doomsaying, puerile humor and callbacks to outdated grievances — messaging that operates on a number of ranges.
A few of…
