Let’s face it, Trump sounds more like a cheap gangster than a politician most of the time. His rhetoric is full of threats and swaggering braggadocio. That’s just who he is. When he sounds like a cheap cartoon villain saying “I hope they attack me, because everybody who attacks me is doomed,” that’s what his followers like about him. But what’s even more interesting is the fact that the political media seems to be adopting his rhetorical style. Trumpism must be catching.

Long assumed a flash in the pan, Donald Trump is starting to make Republican insiders sweat