Donald Trump is probably unaware that he’s an avid practitioner of a debating method known among philosophers and rhetoricians as the Gish Gallop. Its aim is simple: to defeat one’s opponent ...

The 'Gish gallop' is the rhetorical equivalent of music's wall of sound — it drowns out facts and reason. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. excel at it.

Donald Trump’s performance also saw the return of a familiar tactic in American public discourse, the “Gish gallop”—an avalanche of nonsense presented as fact—on the debate stage.