Our president is a master at outrage. Part of his success comes, as I have suggested in a recent posting in the Provocation section of this web site, from hid skill in hyperbole.
But where is hyperbole when we need it? We have come to expect it and its concomitant, outrage, whenever he speaks or tweets, so when he reads what would seem for another president perfectly acceptable, albeit disgracefully belated, statement on Charlotesville, it falls flat on its face. Lacking the now familiar hyperboles it sounds out of character and hence insincere.
Come on, Mr. President, makes America hyperolic again. Give us back our outrage.
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