09-29-2018, 07:32 PM
(09-29-2018, 06:41 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-29-2018, 09:18 AM)David Horn Wrote: Actually, Trump is a poor businessman who succeeds by ignoring the rules and, frankly, the law as well. At that, he's still managed to bankrupt himself more than once, saving himself through nefarious business activities, money laundering being the most obvious. So your premise fails. Trump is not clever. He's cunning, but so is a wolf. I doubt we would elect the head of a wolfpack to the office he holds, so why Trump?Oh, I think you're down playing Trump as usual. Trump is both clever and cunning. I mean, look at the way he's been playing the liberal media. The guy is a master tactician who is very familiar with the tools of the modern age. He has a large American following who is vocal who aren't afraid to call liberals idiots and fun of them and hurt their precious blue feelings.
It is this blind hatred, sometimes called Trump Derangement Syndrome, that causes his opponents to underestimate him. I have know doubt Trump is using this to his advantage because he understands something that you do not. His enemies are going to hate him no matter what so Trump might as well use that hatred to keep his opponents from thinking straight and hopefully get them to alienate their support from those with less extreme feelings.
David you are overlooking one very important fact, even when the odds are against him Trump still manages to find a way to win. This is not a characteristic of an idiot.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises