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Who’s Afraid of Donald Trump?

Posted March 24th, 2016 @ 9:54am in #trump

For new readers:

I have already disavowed Donald Trump for being scary. And by that I mean he scares my fellow citizens, which I find unacceptable.

My policy views don’t line up with any of the candidates’ positions, including Trump’s. I don’t vote and I am not a member of a political party. I try to avoid identifying with any political label because doing so would make me biased and less credible.

My interest in Trump is his persuasion skills. I have never seen better.

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A Donald Trump presidency might offer a once-in-a-lifetime chance to fire the government of the United States.

Whatever that means.

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Sleeper Persuasion with a Trigger

Posted March 23rd, 2016 @ 9:02am in #Trump

The other day I explained to you that Trump was using “stamina” as a linguistic kill shot against Hillary Clinton. The genius of it – persuasion-wise – is that every normal candidate has some low-energy days. Everyone gets hoarse from too much speech-making. Everyone takes bathroom breaks, and other kinds of breaks. Trump knew that voters would see “evidence” of Clinton’s lack of stamina even when there was no evidence. That’s how confirmation bias works.

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The Belgium Analogy

Posted March 22nd, 2016 @ 10:12am in #Trump

Regular readers know I have been waging a battle in this blog against analogies. The problem with analogies is that people use them in place of reason. For example, the biggest analogy going around lately is that Trump is the next Hitler.

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Social Media is the New Government

Posted March 21st, 2016 @ 8:15am in #Trump

The founders of the United States designed a system in which voters elected smart people and those smart people ran the country. They called it a republic.

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Bumper Sticker Thinking

Posted March 19th, 2016 @ 9:10am in #Trump

Perhaps you are familiar with this famous quote:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

The idea here is that patterns in history repeat. That might be true. Or it might be false. I have no idea. But I’ll tell you one thing I know with 100% certainty: