Is it normal for supporters to adopt candidates' speech?

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01 Sep 2016, 11:26 am

I wasn't actually the first to notice it, a commentator on radio did, but reading something today reminded me of it, and it's not just slogans which every politician has, but patterns in the way people speak - grammar, even length of sentences. Of course, it doesn't help to have a 140-character limit, but even within that limit some adopt and defend not simply their ideologies and statements but their exact vocabulary and pauses also (one factor in a cult?), so e.g.if I was in the previous two sentences there almost certainly would have been more than two sentences, as somehow periods seem to be loved (not the feminine aspect, of course, none of that is by him...)

Someone even tried to emulate him with AI: https://twitter.com/deepdrumpf