Jonathan Chait on “The Real Reason ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Works“: Mitt Romney’s plan of blatantly lying about President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” speech is clearly drawing blood. But what makes the attack work so well is not so much the lie itself but the broader subtext of it. … The key thing is that Obama is angry, and he’s talking not in his normal voice but in a “black dialect.” This strikes at the core of Obama’s entire political identity: a soft-spoken, reasonable African-American with a Kansas accent. From the moment he stepped onto the national stage, Obama’s … Continue reading ‘The key thing is that Obama is angry, and he’s talking not in his normal voice but in a “black dialect.”’