become less and less followed by implied Action; it seems that he is so fearful of the political losses of a decent proposal failing to overcome the Nutters,
that he caves and then rationalizes.

[Yess, Mr. Prez: we fucking-See! the anarchy being advanced by the demagogues. Choosing surrender over a well-honed and direct attack
--on the pabulum beneath their rhetoric--is merely the obvious Gutless response. Simply: you Dare-not.]

Fucked-again by sententious sonnets, un-backed by courage :-/
A bully-pulpit, hardly ever dusted off. (And He Knows how to 'speak', actually)--that's the incongruous part.
He may be quite duller in his imagination than his polished, ever-so-'logical' constructs ... reveal.
We have no means, ever, of pre-assessing that sort of fatal flaw until we see it in (non-) actions.