<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">1. Trump knows people are basically irrational.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">2. Knowing that people are irrational, Trump aims to appeal on an</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">emotional level.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">3. By running on emotion, facts don’t matter.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">4. If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be “wrong.”</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">5. With fewer facts in play, it’s easier to bend reality.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">6. To bend reality, Trump is a master of identity politics — and</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">identity is the strongest persuader.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">bill k</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Among many other things, here's why he won't: she will chew him up and spit him out in the debates bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:47 PM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 7 May 2016 at 22:04, Bill Hibbard wrote:<br>
> A lot of interesting comments on this list about Trump.<br>
><br>
> He is one of many symptoms of a global phenomenon of<br>
> social disruption caused by technological change. In<br>
> particular, lots of people are not needed by the<br>
> market, or no longer needed at the price they used to<br>
> get (this also applies in planned economies, which<br>
> ultimately must respond to some sort of "market forces"<br>
> in order to remain viable internationally). Not being<br>
> needed really hurts and makes people crazy.<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Dilbert on 'Why Trump will win by a landslide'.<br>
<br>
<<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-will-win-in-a-landslide-the-mind-behind-dilbert-explains-why/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-will-win-in-a-landslide-the-mind-behind-dilbert-explains-why/</a>><br>
<br>
Bullet points:<br>
<br>
1. Trump knows people are basically irrational.<br>
2. Knowing that people are irrational, Trump aims to appeal on an<br>
emotional level.<br>
3. By running on emotion, facts don’t matter.<br>
4. If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be “wrong.”<br>
5. With fewer facts in play, it’s easier to bend reality.<br>
6. To bend reality, Trump is a master of identity politics — and<br>
identity is the strongest persuader.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
BillK<br>
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