Some of the speeches, as the evening dragged on, seemed almost to borrow from the rhetoric and themes of campaign season.
Today it can do well with its anti-elite, anti-globalization, anti-Red Vienna rhetoric, on themes familiar to populists: victory (almost) stolen from the people and defiance towards the traditional political class.
More often the effect is to add intensity and depth, as, for example, in the "Aeolus" chapter (Episode 7) set in a newspaper office, with rhetoric as the theme.
More than other presidents of recent times, they imbued their civil rhetoric with evangelical themes and suggested that America has a divine assignment in the world to spread what Reagan called "the sacred fire of human liberty".
While the relatively muted protests in most Arab capitals on Friday fed some hope that an emergency summit meeting could revive peace talks, the emotional scars of the recent violence on both Arabs and Jews and the re-emergence of Arab nationalist themes, rhetoric and fears are likely to complicate efforts to resolve the 50-year-old Arab-Israeli struggle peacefully.
Mr. Trump's convention has been a triumph for Mr. Ailes's brand of smash-mouth and "politically incorrect" politics — with speakers, themes, rhetoric and, ultimately, a nominee who is far more at home on the set of Fox News than in the establishment halls of Congress, the Republican National Committee or The Weekly Standard.
At his Inaugural, a year ago, Trump was grandiose and dark in his rhetoric, taking as his theme a scene of "American carnage" that he insisted was sweeping the land.
According to the website Politico, anti-Putin rhetoric will be the theme of Bush's trip, and will only be ramped up when the former Florida governor visits the Russian border states of Poland and Estonia later this week.
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, said: "It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of White Supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide".
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, said: "It is easy to see why the KKK views Trump as their champion when Trump appoints one of the foremost peddlers of white supremacist themes and rhetoric as his top aide".
