Posted August 24th, 2016 @ 7:21am in #trump #clinton
Heads are exploding at CNN as pundits try to define Trump’s repeated offers to help African-Americans as typical Hitler behavior. As my regular readers know, what we have here is a perfect trap for cognitive dissonance. The anti-Trumpers have created an identify for themselves – and in the media – as opposing Trump because he’s a racist. Then Trump goes and ruins their mental models by acting all non-racist.
0 CommentsPosted August 23rd, 2016 @ 9:07am in #Trump #Clinton
Watch the first minute of this clip to see Hillary Clinton use the “liar’s dodge” to avoid Jimmy Kimmel’s direct question “Are you in good health?”
When you ask an honest, healthy person if they are in good health, they say, “Yes.” They might also ask why you are inquiring. They might add some details. But they usually answer the question.
0 CommentsPosted August 22nd, 2016 @ 8:31pm in #trump #clinton #wall
Is it my imagination, or would a Trump presidency allow for more citizen participation than a Clinton presidency?
In a Clinton administration, citizens might expect that any good ideas bubbling up from voters would be squashed by the special interests. The lobbyists and industry insiders promote legislation for their own benefit, not for the public.
But Trump promises to ignore the moneyed interests. And he’s an entrepreneur at heart. In a Trump presidency, it is easy to imagine good ideas coming from the public and making it all the way to implementation. So in that spirit, I give you my idea for making Mexico pay for the wall.
0 CommentsPosted August 22nd, 2016 @ 8:59am in #Trump #Clinton
To many people – if not most – Donald Trump looks like the type of candidate who would become a “strongman” president, ignoring the advice of experts and the opinion of the people. That’s the persuasion framework that Clinton has created in your mind, probably with the help of the Master Persuader I call Godzilla.
But does the evidence support that view? I see the opposite.
0 CommentsPosted August 19th, 2016 @ 8:44am in #trump #clinton
By now, most of you know that Trump expressed “regret” at saying things in the past that might have hurt people. Most viewers interpreted this as an apology, of sorts.
Trump? Apologize?
I have some thoughts on this, in no particular order.
0 CommentsPosted August 18th, 2016 @ 2:13pm in #Gawker #Trump
Check out my long-form conversation with Stefan Molyneux, about lots of things, including Trump. People seem to like it.
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0 CommentsPosted August 18th, 2016 @ 10:08am in #trump #Clinton
As the media has reported, the media caused Trump to have a few terrible weeks following the Democratic National Convention. To be fair, Trump made it easy. They turned his casual comment about Islam’s gender issues (based on Mrs. Khan’s silence) into an imaginary insult to a fallen soldier. And they turned his unwise joke about the 2nd Amendment into an imaginary call for assassination. Trump’s poll numbers showed the damage.
So how did Trump respond?
0 CommentsPosted August 17th, 2016 @ 6:09pm in #trump #clinton
As voters, we would like to see the medical records and tax returns of our candidates for president. But that would be a violation of their privacy to such a degree that it would discourage talented people from public service in the future.
So how about a compromise?
0 CommentsPosted August 16th, 2016 @ 10:52am in #Trump #Clinton #ISIS
Let’s talk about Trump’s foreign policy speech from a persuasion standpoint.
Trump read from the teleprompter and acted more “presidential,” whatever that means. And he softened his position on Muslim immigration to “extreme vetting.” That was a good strategy for rebranding himself as less scary, but I doubt many people will watch that speech, so it won’t have much impact.
Anyway, let’s talk about what else Trump got right – or wrong – persuasion-wise.
0 CommentsPosted August 14th, 2016 @ 4:59pm in #Trump #Clinton
In my book – that you might enjoy because it is full of words – I talk about developing your own personal bullsh*t detector. I won’t rewrite that chapter here, but I’ll tell you how my own B.S. detector sees the accuracy of the presidential polls.
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