"Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength"
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He reaches for Greek myth the way litigators reach for precedent: to turn a messy, contingent conflict into a story with a single decisive lever. The “Grecian hero” is Achilles, the unbeatable warrior undone by one small, knowable weakness. Sekulow’s intent is tactical and prosecutorial. He isn’t just saying the other side can be beat; he’s insisting they can be beaten cleanly, almost elegantly, if you stop flailing and start aiming.
The subtext is more pointed: your current strategy is malpractice. “You have not touched it yet” reads like a cross-examination of allies as much as an indictment of foes. The enemy’s “vulnerable point” is framed as obvious, discoverable, waiting for competent hands. That assumption does a lot of work. It flatters the audience into believing victory is available, then shames them for failing to seize it. It’s motivational rhetoric dressed as diagnosis.
The most revealing move is the inversion at the end: weakness becoming strength. That’s not an abstract philosophical flourish; it’s a brief for urgency. Whatever the “vulnerable point” is - a legal exposure, a messaging contradiction, an institutional dependency - Sekulow implies it’s been mishandled so long that it has calcified into advantage. He’s warning about narrative drift: if you don’t define the opponent’s liability, they will rebrand it as resilience.
As a lawyer, he’s also signaling worldview. Conflicts are winnable through targeted pressure, not moral catharsis. Find the joint, apply force, end the fight.
The subtext is more pointed: your current strategy is malpractice. “You have not touched it yet” reads like a cross-examination of allies as much as an indictment of foes. The enemy’s “vulnerable point” is framed as obvious, discoverable, waiting for competent hands. That assumption does a lot of work. It flatters the audience into believing victory is available, then shames them for failing to seize it. It’s motivational rhetoric dressed as diagnosis.
The most revealing move is the inversion at the end: weakness becoming strength. That’s not an abstract philosophical flourish; it’s a brief for urgency. Whatever the “vulnerable point” is - a legal exposure, a messaging contradiction, an institutional dependency - Sekulow implies it’s been mishandled so long that it has calcified into advantage. He’s warning about narrative drift: if you don’t define the opponent’s liability, they will rebrand it as resilience.
As a lawyer, he’s also signaling worldview. Conflicts are winnable through targeted pressure, not moral catharsis. Find the joint, apply force, end the fight.
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