Posted July 24th, 2016 @ 7:16pm in #Trump #Clinton #Inluence
If you are following the media coverage after the GOP convention, you know that Democrats and their surrogates are describing Trump’s speech as “dark.” The first ten times I heard the word, I thought it might be a situation in which someone clever used the term once and others copied it.
That is not the case.
0 CommentsPosted July 24th, 2016 @ 8:56am in #Trump #Clinton #martiallaw
Let’s say Donald Trump wins the election. And let’s say Democrats believe everything they say about him – that he’s the next Hitler. Wouldn’t President Obama be obligated to declare martial law and remain in power?
I realize this question sounds silly when you first hear it. But keep in mind that Democrats have successfully sold the “racist strongman” narrative about Trump to their own ranks. If they’re right about Trump, we need to start getting serious about planning for martial law, for the good of the country and the world. No one wants another Hitler. And if they’re wrong, we still need to plan for martial law because Democrats think they are right. That’s all it takes.
0 CommentsPosted July 23rd, 2016 @ 9:51am in #Trump #Clinton
Yesterday Hillary Clinton announced her VP running mate, Tim Kaine. Let me tell you how that decision looks from a persuasion standpoint. I’ll ignore Kaine’s education, experience, political preferences, and anything else that voters say they care about but don’t. Today, let’s just talk about how people will feel about it.
0 CommentsPosted July 22nd, 2016 @ 9:16am in #Trump #Clinton
Trump gave his nomination acceptance speech last night. I grade it an A-. It wasn’t a speech for the ages, but it was presidential enough. As convention speeches go, it was solid.
Posted July 21st, 2016 @ 11:11am in #Trump #GOP Convention #Clinton
I finally watched a replay of Donald Trump Jr.’s speech at the GOP Convention. It was a home run for content and delivery. I especially liked his approach of labeling Clinton as the “risky” candidate. That’s good persuasion. No one wants risk in their lives, and you can make a good case that Clinton brings some. It directly counters the impression that Trump is the dangerous choice.
0 CommentsPosted July 20th, 2016 @ 6:37pm in #ISIS #newt gingrich #Trump #clinton2016
Newt Gingrich has a plan to defeat ISIS by destroying the technology in ISIS-held territory. I described a similar approach in this post.
The interesting part of this approach is that it frames the enemy as something from the past. This is more about persuasion than death. All we’d be doing is destroying the technology (and anyone standing near it) that did not originate within Islam. That seems fair to me.
0 CommentsPosted July 18th, 2016 @ 10:03am in #Trump #Clinton
When you are trained in the ways of persuasion, you start seeing three types of people in the world. I’ll call them Rational People, Word-Thinkers, and Persuaders. Their qualities look like this:
0 CommentsPosted July 16th, 2016 @ 9:32am in #trump #Gingrich #mike pence #clinton
Monitoring Mosques
People are outraged because Newt Gingrich suggested that the U.S. government should start monitoring mosques to thwart terrorism. Outrage is a perfectly reasonable response to Gingrich’s proposal if you’re dumb enough to think the government isn’t already monitoring mosques in the U.S.
How do I know the government already monitors any mosques in which they suspect there might be problems?
0 CommentsPosted July 14th, 2016 @ 9:17am in #trump #clinton
Trump’s biggest problem in this election so far is that most racists appear to be on his side. At least it looks that way to the public. That awkward perception allowed Team Clinton to brand the Trump campaign as the racist team. Clinton’s strategy of racial politics has been effective. I recently blogged that “crooked” beats “racist” every time, meaning that unless something changes, Clinton has the persuasion advantage.
But today we see in the polls that the candidates are effectively tied. What changed?
0 CommentsPosted July 13th, 2016 @ 9:04am in #trump #clinton2016
Is it my imagination, or has Trump been relatively non-controversial lately?
Do you remember how Trump got lots of free publicity in the past year by saying approximately one outrageous and controversial thing each week, like clockwork? And do you remember how you thought his outrageous approach could never be a winning formula in the general election?
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