"many, many" "very, very" "horrible, horrible"

[caraher]

12. It's embarrassing but it serves him

Because so little of what he says has any factual basis, repetitively spewing simple adverbs and adjectives plays to the prejudices of those inclined to support him (his true audience, always) while making refutation more challenging (when he says something like "our crime rates are soaring" he can be fact-checked, but if he says it's "very very high" he's still wrong, but proving it is more subtle because what counts as "high" depends on which of many defensible standards you might choose - maybe one can establish that murder rates is at historically low levels, for instance, but reasonable people could still consider those rates much higher than a society should deem acceptable).

The embarrassing part isn't that he's inarticulate, it's that we've found ourselves in a position where what ought to be disqualifying defects actually served to promote his taking power.