shhh, the rope-a-dope game is still ongoing....
Well Adams the Dilbert guru knows business and Trump is a businessman. Adams seems to have some good points that Trump could uncork a lot more power than we’ve seen so far.
Trump is coming to a focus.
Adams has been doing in my opinion the best writing on Trump since the beginning. He’s been right a lot more than he’s been wrong so far.
Thanks, always fascinating to catch up on what Scott is seeing while most of the rest are on a different level.
The “Crooked Hillary” brand is pretty good IMHO, as it snaps people right back to Rose Law, cattle futures, and Whitewater as a reminder that she has always been engaged in shady deals that were never quite enough to take her/Bill down. It’s the death of a thousand paper cuts that will get her, not some crashing blow that she’s very good at ducking.
And of course Trump knows more than he puts forth, and he uses it to his advantage. For example, after hiring former Cruz spokesperson/possible mistress Katrina PIerson Trump knew full well that Cruz has been lying about some very important things for a long time, in addition to the lies he tells constantly in the course of his campaign rhetoric. He knew that by calling him “Lyin’ Ted” people would think of the latter, while knowing full well Cruz would never dare challenge him on the nickname for fear that Trump might expose the darker stuff.
“Master Persuader”! It’s the art of the deal, man!
Ah, the chessboard!
Man’s invention to supercede the David vs Goliath scene.
Wars have been waged and lost, with the loser-who represents the opposing force-forfeiting their life.
A good chess player can run gambits moves ahead of the competitor. He can also set the game’s motion, depending on the inattentiveness of the opponent.
He can also, on a caprice, seem to know nothing of the game, making bizarre board moves, but all the while, inching towards the opponent’s capitulation.
Cruz and Congress play checkers.
Kasich thinks he is playing backgammon.
Trump is playing Kasparov moves.
"Trump depends on a slow drip of future news that reinforces the label. Trump knows Cruz will say some things that are not true (as all candidates do) and it will reinforce his “lyin’” label. Likewise, Clinton will endure a slow drip of allegations about crooked dealings in the past, taking money from banks for speaking fees, and the email server situation. Every time another sketchy detail emerges, you will think “crooked.” The new name is sticky. And it is engineered with a timer so it worsens all year until the election."
(Emphasis mine.)
Trump understands the Tao. Make a small tweak and let nature take its course.
So a maximum of forty percent of the public can stand his vulgarity, his boorishness, his bullying, his ignorance, and what not. So what? They really, really, REALLY want him elected and that, rather than the OTHER 60% of the vote is all that counts in their fertile imaginations.
So what if he is Manhattan lifelong liberal? Doesn't all that complicated stuff about actual principles just make their heads hurt. He is on autoinsult towards those they despise. He tickles their ears. He is the secular messiah, at least according to his sycophants.
Imhotep! Imhotep! Imhotep!
I don't think that Adams has missed a significant moment or prediction this cycle.
He's not a Trump supporter; he is taking a "purely academic" view of the Trump phenomenon, and he has been right consistently.
Good post on the Benghazi Bungler on Facebook this am. Sen. Warren recounts story of first lady Hillary being show error of ways of a pending bankruptcy bill. As first lady, Hillary caused Bill to veto the bill. Then as Hillary the Senator, she voted on the same bill in another term.
I disagree. These whose life blood is politics, understand full well what Trump is doing... He is doing what none of them dare, go directly to the American people. What is being exposed is how like the Soviet bureaucracy the majority of politicians emulate. Trump has no 'policy' papers, cried one Cruz bot. Trump does not agree with the back room rules, made by design to control the outcome of elections. Trump actually does want to 'Make America Great Again', whereas the UNIPARTY intends continuing their cabal over our Constitution. And Cruz is a member of that cabal.
Why did his campaign manager just quit?