The Donald refrains from falling into the same Steph trap that got Mitt...Go Donald!
George Stephanopoulos’s Gifts to Clinton Foundation Reinforce G.O.P. Doubts
But with his acknowledgment that he had given a significant sum to the Clinton Foundation, he found himself facing accusations that he was effectively trying to buy favor with his former employers as Mrs. Clinton seeks the presidency for a second time.
Did Trump give to the Clinton Foundation? LOL.
Politico: “Clinton Foundation hangs on to donations from Donald Trump”
You just annihilated your own argument. LOL. ROTFL.
>> "His answers to me seem to be "Yada, Yada, Yada........We build a wall. "Yada, Yada, Yada........We get jobs back from China."
"He stayed on message. That is what a good politician does."
"The Donald refrains from falling into the same Steph trap that got Mitt."
"And what answers do you see from the rest of the field that are so deep and detailed?"
Correct! Ambiguity is high level strategic thinking, it is a very good thing. We've had nothing but political technicians with encyclopedias full of plans and details, and none of them ever get followed to the letter because of future variables and unknowns.
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder: Theory Of War ... "Moltke's main thesis was that military strategy had to be understood as a system of options since only the beginning of a military operation was plannable. As a result, he considered the main task of military leaders to consist in the extensive preparation of all possible outcomes. His thesis can be summed up by two statements, one famous and one less so, translated into English as "No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength" (or "no plan survives contact with the enemy")[3] and "Strategy is a system of expedients"."
This belief has become apocryphal and is better known today as "No plan survives the battlefield". It is pure, clinical, logical thinking. And most important: it is HONEST. In poker you have: "keep your cards close to your vest" and in war: "Loose lips sink ships". All of them are sound advice, especially in a political world war as full of "gotchas" as this one is.
If this is Trump's operating theory ( I never read his books so I cannot say ), then more power to him. He is doing you and I and everyone else a favor by not building up false hopes and not burning up time wasted on meaningless details that will never see the light of day.
Hopefully there is a small minority of voters that for some crazy reason want to get mired down in details. It is far better that the 'leader' sets the agenda and the big picture items and then rounds up the proper people to see this through. He also must be vigilant enough to watch over them and FIRE them when they fail. Who does this sound like? That *is* Trump in a nutshell, and he indeed appears to have leadership qualities.
I have to point his out, in 1980 Reagan had big non-specific plans. Creating jobs, tax cuts, military rebuilding, restoring the American spirit ( 'our best days are in front of us' ). If he had specific details on the campaign trail in 1980 can anyone seriously imagine that *any*, I mean even a single one would have played out as designed? Hell no.
People that are saying that they want a political technician are IMHO frauds just looking for some lame reason to bash Trump just as they did with Gingrich in 1994. But these people don't need to look very far. You have Bush and Rubio who are more than happy to oblige this desire by swamping their voters with pages of meaningless details, none that will ever see the light of day because they will capitulate once they hit their first cocktail party.