An ultra blender of words, tropes, and cliches

From "It’s a kind of mosaic of what it was moments before"/"My memories are a montage of magical madnesses." by Ann Althouse.  Althouse is a constitutional law professor with a lively and continuing fascination with words and the structure of language.  

I had not really thought about it, but VP Kamala Harris and Althouse are kind of an antithesis of one another.  Althouse is the craftsman focused on using the tools of words and language to convey meaning as clearly and succinctly (and artfully perhaps as well) as possible.  Harris in contrast, seems to consistently struggle to fill a time void with a random jumble of words, cliches, tropes, etc..  Not in order to convey considered meaning but to fill the void.  Word salad is how many describe her communication style.

In Althouse's post she is talking about various clerisy members who seem to be speaking magically and Harris is added in the group.  

Althouse finishes with a mocking riff off Harris's comments:

Here's how I feel about the moment in terms of just having language: I think we're losing it. Language. It's slipping away. Fragmenting. Into moments. Moments of montage and mosaic. Mwah!

All of which leads to a different thought.

Harris is notorious for her terrible management style.  As California AG, when she was running for president and with her VP staff.  Personnel turnover is high,  and there is always background rumors and discontents.  It is easy to think she is simply a bad manager.

But what if her private conversations are similar in style to her public speeches?  Scrambled and uncoordinated thoughts, fragmented and unaligned.  She might still be a bad manager but perhaps it is for the specific reason that she is a terrible communicator.  Possibly she is just stupid and there is no thought to be communicated.  But it is also possible that she thinks well but articulates badly.  

It is fair to ask "What difference at this point does it make?" but it does reorient one's thinking a bit, introducing a little generosity.  Maybe there is more substance there than is credited and instead there is some very real structural problem in her communication style.  

Or maybe not.