“What concerns me is that there have been other leaders with great crowds. They did not work out well.”
That is the talking point that came out today, to make suggestions to the suggestible. Reagan had large, enthusiastic crowds; I was in one of them. I was in a Bush #1 crowd once during his second run; it was low-key. Historically, the winning candidate has very large crowds. That is why they win.
Also it takes a fighter who can get people to follow him to be successful running the government.
You can be a genius, but it does not good of no one will listen and no one will follow.
And I suspect Trump knows how to hire competent people. How else could he have done so well.
Trump is right about the art of the deal but after the deal is made one needs competent people to live up to the deal. It would appear that he knows how to manage that as well.