Posted on 03/24/2016 12:40:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Scott Adams remembers just how the game turned. He was young and improving at chess, but the masterful kid across the board would outmaneuver Adams till the game seemed a runaway. Now, this kid didn't want to just beat Adams; he wanted to embarrass him.
"So after he'd picked away three-fourths of my pieces and I was discouraged," Adams recounts, "he would offer to turn the board around and play with my pieces." And then effectively "win" again.
On those occasions, Adams, the creator of "Dilbert," got insight into the type of personality that loves not only the challenge of game strategy, but also the thrill of overwhelming the competition. It is the sport of meticulously plotted domination.
And that is part of why Adams believes Donald Trump will win the presidency. In a landslide.
Adams, in other words, believes that Trump himself has turned the campaign game around. On the stump, the real-estate mogul is not running on the knowledge of his numbers or the dissection of the data. He is running on our emotions, Adams says, and sly appeals to our own human irrationality.
Since last August, in fact, when many were calling Trump's entry a clown candidacy, the "Dilbert" cartoonist was already declaring The Donald a master in the powers of persuasion who would undoubtedly rise in the polls. And last week, Adams began blogging about how Trump can rhetorically dismantle Clinton's candidacy next....
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This is way bigger than Trump.
Rush has severe TDS.
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?" Trump!
It'll be a short trip!
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