Wait. A reality TV star has “authenticity”?
We are destined to be ruled by idiots
“Wait. A reality TV star has “authenticity”?”
He hosted basically a game show, dude. Maybe a few hours a week at best. He barely appeared on the show.
He still engaged in his primary job of running his real world businesses.
Why people just pretend like that was his whole life is just weird.
“Wait. A reality TV star has “authenticity”?
Compared to a Bible-Thumping lawyer who claims he doesn’t even know what country he’s a citizen of (snort)... yeah.
“destined to be ruled by idiots”? We already are and they lie and vote with the democrats. They tell us one story but change it when they return to dc.
“Reality TV Star”? Miopic much? His TV show came long long long after his great success as a land developer. Not like cruz, who employed 10’s of thousands of people. No wait...
You really are a tool, aren’t you...
“...ruled by idiots?...”
An idiot could never accomplish this!
Go Trump! Build the wall! You DID build that!
As Lee Atwater would tell you, that’s critically important. Once the broader electorate sense “who you are”, and become comfortable with that sensibility, there is a remarkable shift toward granting the benefit of doubt in policy and change.
[The most recent example of such a benefactor was Bill Clinton in his prime.]
However, in the same polls, Ted Cruz is viewed as the candidate willing to tell you everything you want to hear so long as it benefits him. That’s the “authenticity” issue. Just as there is a long-term benefit in positive authenticity polling, there is a long-term detriment in negative authenticity polling.
Opinions of “authenticity” are almost impossible to change once they embed. The word ‘almost’ is an understatement, because no politician in modern times has ever been able to reverse the authenticity component.
Bernie Sanders also benefits from positive opinions in authenticity, and Hillary Clinton is viewed similarly to Cruz as inherently inauthentic as a matter of mere disposition.
Pay attention! Trump’s brand of reality TV has highly successful entrepreneurs putting real money on the best of the startup ideas and teams participating in the competition. A lot of new business successes have come from his show.
All “reality TV” is not alike.
Of course, critics of Reagan conveniently overlooked the fact that Reagan had a very strong "non-acting" background that made him a terrific choice for president.
Now yes, Donald Trump had a reality TV show but it was only a small part of what he did during his lifetime of building companies and developing real estate in probably the most challenging real estate market in the world (NYC).
By the way, I think Trump's TV experience helps him communicate and connect with the American people in the same way that Reagan's movie/radio experience helped him.
Not a bad thing.
Yeah I would have picked Phil Robertson but the Donald beat him to the punch. A lawyer would be so much better?
Wouldn’t go there. We had the third greatest president of the United States who was a B-movie actor and who was as authentic as they come.