Yeah, i'd agree with that. He had balls to take on crowds like that. It's something that no modern politician would dare to do today. We barely even have political rallies - it's all doorstops, press conferences and announcements to select groups of media/business/gvt/party elites
I'd agree with you on conviction, but it was hardly stirring. Just brave, in a cringing way. He came close to inspiration with a dawn service address at Gallipoli, but that was it imo. Give me the classic poltician stirring and persuading a crowd with rhetoric