Trump’s inauguration speech was unlike most that he delivers. Though not short on his usual belligerence, it was heavily scripted, grammatically conventional, and, at times, lyrical.

The speech, which Trump originally implied he wrote himself, was largely composed by two of his advisers, Stephen Miller and the white-supremacist former chair of Breitbart, Stephen Bannon. Bannon said that it was an address unlike any “since Andrew Jackson came to the White House,” containing “a deep, deep root of patriotism.”

Bannon’s self-aggrandizing plaudits aside, the speech tells us a lot about Trump, and a lot about the poetics of the “alt-right.”