I felt him lose the crowd in PA when he really got going with the "drug dealers deserve the death penalty" thing. The logic is sound (1 drug dealer killing thousands of customers, etc), but the crowd withdrew their support and became uneasy. Watch it again. I believe that was the test- to see if the American people are ready for heavy-handed justice, like the kind we get all fired up about. The normies are not yet ready.
My 2 cents.
Adding 2 more cents…
1) That part of the speech didn't sound like a normal Trump rally to me. It seemed like POTUS was paying a lot of attention to the crowd. Which made me wonder what was going on. (I was also creeped out by the guy with the photo of the minivan - my sheepdog senses were all tingly.)
2) POTUS planted a seed in the minds of those people watching, that seed said "maybe" we are too soft on drug dealers. Many citizens have suffered damage to their family from illegal drug trade.
Small time drug dealers are popularized practically as victims in pop culture -"just doin what I gots to do to get by". (FEELZ: I think this is the type of drug dealer that was on the minds of people in that crowd when they got uneasy. At least that's what I felt.)
Big time drug dealers are often popularized as successful businessmen -and they are, but their success is built on the destruction of others. There is less sympathy for these people … often the feeling is "they got what they deserved" when the Punisher comes for them.
Normies don't know that the C-eye-A is the MAJOR drug dealer in America (the world?) and has been for decades? I think the normies would warm up to the idea of lifetime sentences/death penalties for drug supply mastermind kingpins like that. Anger that it was government involved will be righteous.
PERHAPS this is the PLAN… to work people up thru the "chain of command" of the illegal drug trade to find and punish those responsible for making it happen???
Now you have my 4 cents.