Sunday’s Trump rally at Madison Square Garden was extraordinary for its size and location, in the center of a deep “blue” state that sought to lock in its own main attraction, but the event itself was actually quite extraordinary.

There were many forgettable speakers delivering standard talking points and enthusiastic audiences happy to be in the same room with like-minded allies. They applauded whenever someone talked about closing the border and mocked the “fake news” press.

Most of it was predictable. There were fun moments, like former wrestling champion Hulk Hogan ripping his shirt or Florida Congressman Byron Donalds walking off the stage to a rap song.

Extraordinary moments at political rallies don’t happen often, by definition, but when they do, they’re unmistakable and always tell you something important about what people really care about and why they’re actually there.

There were several moments like this at the Trump rally, where a speaker stood up and projected to the crowd something important in their consciousness, vocalizing it and unleashing original energy.

The crowd roared three times, and a roar is different from even the most enthusiastic cheer. This is a vocalization that emanates from deep within people when they feel determined and strong.

The buzz was loud when entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was introduced to investor, chief executive officer and potential Department of Government Efficiency director Elon Musk.

The voices were even louder when former (and perhaps future) president Donald Trump took the stage.

With their business resumes and bold, strong personalities, these three non-political figures have become symbols of MAGA’s mission to fight the establishment and bring skill, competence, common sense and measurable results back to public service.

Before any of these men uttered a word on stage, they created an extraordinary energy of raucous confidence in an arena full of warriors seeking leadership. Critics of the rally decried the “indecisive” atmosphere but failed to understand the people’s longing for power.

Maintaining silence in a crowd of tens of thousands of people can be more difficult than deafening noise and can be distinguished from silence. Delivering a scripted speech in a boring way can provoke a polite, quiet, and distant response in the audience, but silence occurs when people become fully engaged and move into silence. I only heard this once when a guy named David Rem took the mic.

Mr. Rem recalled a childhood memory shortly after his father’s death in 1974. When she opened her front door in Queens, New York, she found Donald’s father, Fred Trump.

He had stopped by to inform Ms. Rem that he had paid the school fees for his three children so they could stay in school. “Who does this?” David asked the crowd emotionally as he told the story. Everyone there knew the answer wasn’t a government agency or program.

There was no sound or movement in the room that had any energy of its own. The crowd experienced a moment of nostalgic silence, a reminder of a time when community wasn’t a digital experience or a protected class designated by the government based on immutable characteristics or sexual preference.

It was a group of people living in a neighborhood who cared about each other. People miss community.

Another energetic event featured both former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and appeared during a speech by political commentator and author Tucker Carlson.

This occurred as Mr. Kennedy spoke of the left’s abandonment of free speech and civil liberties and bemoaned its embrace of war.

The same thing was repeated towards the end of his remarks when he talked about the health of the nation. His sincerity and passion simultaneously exhilarated and subdued the listener. This is the feeling you get when the truth is spoken by a truth teller: It energizes you and at the same time stops you in your tracks.

The same sentiment echoed in the room when Mr. Carlson explained why President Trump had won such broad support. “The salvation it brings us is freedom from the obligation to lie,” he said. “Donald Trump made it possible for the rest of us to tell the truth about the world around us.”

These sentences were at once a restorative jolt of validation and a calming reassurance to the disappointed, betrayed, and gaslighted. If you were in the room, you could feel 20,000 souls not knowing whether to shout “Amen” or close their eyes and breathe deeply in relief. People want more honesty and less hypocrisy. They hate lies.

Democrats can continue to act like they see Hitler and fascist armies in every corner of MAGA, but this story doesn’t allow them to understand why so many people packed an arena in New York for Trump.

Maybe they don’t want to understand half of the country and prefer to crush it. If they want to understand, they must look at the crowd.

With every reaction, with every sound they make and don’t make, they reveal more than the headlines what their priorities and aspirations are. These are extraordinary moments worth paying attention to.