This is not just charisma. This is anything, anything but an empty suit. This is one small corner of what the man is like. This is character, real character–not a PR job, not a political hack claiming to have character, this is not crafted, not speechwritten, not false or phony in any way. If you have not heard this person make a speech, then listen to this speech; if you think “oh, he’s only about words,” then listen to these words. Listen:

I defy you to find one person who is so utterly cynical that they cannot listen to that full twenty-four minutes, and see the promise of this speaker, dismiss what he says as “only words,” or claim that the only thing here is charisma and nothing else. If you can find that person, then have sympathy for them because there may be little or nothing at all that can bring them back to hope.

This was a speech. This is what sets the man apart from that pale imitation of a president who is running on the other side. This is not golf gear, this is not four more years, this is not a painfully sallow false smile against a sickly green background.

This is the real deal here.