Posted on 08/07/2015 9:35:23 AM PDT by jimbo123
Trump has no need for spokespeople. He strode into the spin room himself to declare victory and force the GOP into an existential crisis.
Donald Trump won the Republican debate, according to Donald Trump.
“It’s the story of my life, I guess,” Trump told reporters after his performance. By that he meant: People are needlessly hard on him, but he is so great and so fabulous that he always prevails in the end.
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Before Trump even made it out to the “spin room,” (so titled because its purpose, established in 1984 by the Reagan campaign, is to give candidates and their operatives a chance to lie to reporters, or “spin” them, in political jargon, moments after the debate ends) he had declared victory in a press release that read, “Donald J. Trump Excels at First Republican Primary Debate.”
This was a vastly different tactic from what was employed by the rest of the nine candidates who shared Trump’s stage. (Trump was, by virtue of being the frontrunner, granted the center spot onstage which is, objectively, the best and classiest position one could have.)
Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, and Scott Walker could not be found in the windowless spin room, which was actually less of a room and more of a large corner, a few feet away from the press area, complete with RNC, Facebook, and Ohio GOP-branded backdrop.
In those candidates’ places were aides and advisers and advocates and spokespeople, each standing beneath a large, upward-arrow shaped sign, emblazoned with the candidates name and held in the air by a masochistic RNC volunteer. They did great, each campaign said of its candidate. Everybody won! It’s like Little League.
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I think Trump is more grounded than Obama. He’s more a showman than anything else.
There’s a large cultural element in this kind of behavior for sure.
What happened last night was an embarrassment to journalism. Instead of asking questions on agendas/plans, they used the forum as a attack platform against candidates of whom Trump was the main focus.
IF, they would have asked questions on the issues of the day, and let Trump fall flat on his face, then no particular person would have given it a thought. He would have drifted quietly out of sight. But, instead they made it a general pissing match against Trump insuring a third party run.
NOT ONE question was asked of Trump on his plans for addressing the issues without there being a snipe directed at him. NOT ONE!!!!
Trump, somewhat like Reagan, is known to be be kind and generous on an individual level, when out of the limelight.
That says something.
I tell my kids all the time,"sometimes you gotta fake confidence and then it will come".
Trump, it seems, learned that lesson early on and took it to a whole other level.
Watching Trump is fascinating to me because it, really, illustrates the weakness of the masses more than anything I have ever seen. Sure they follow the strong current but until now we've really only seen that, like, with an Obama. They all followed the crowd and lined up behind Obama.
Now, ofcourse, the story line with Trump was supposed to follow the usual outcome. (Strong) media and popular culture comes out with full assault on all the reasons to hate him, weak masses follow.
But, Trump didn't play by the book. He just came back with STRENGTH and continued on. Weak masses follow.
The lesson--the sheeple follow strength. Left, right---it doesn't matter.
I could handle that too.
Strong beats weak...whodathunkit?!
“Supposedly we’re raising more narcissists with every generation.
Small family size can’t be helping the situation.”
If you’re talking about true narcissists, a borderline personality disorder, family size has nothing to do with it. It is a defense mechanism the child creates because of not getting their emotional needs met in the stages that require it.
If you’re talking about a culture that cares more about frivolously entertaining oneself and amassing toys, that lack of character (but not true narcissism) probably has more to do with taking God out of everything, including our homes.
I submit that larger families give children more opportunities to get their emotional needs met. Without any siblings, a child is totally dependent upon parental attention and love. With enough siblings, there is genuine love and attention all around.
Sometimes. Depends on the family dynamics. In the old days, it would be that way since mom and dad, and even grandma and grandpa, were home. But a sibling doesn’t take the place of an absent parent, unless they are a parent-figure (much older and one the child bonded to as an infant.)
Besides to create a true narcissist would take more than just busy parents - they’d need to be narcissists themselves or addicts, or both. Something with major psychological damage.
LOL so much
The parent could be either self-absorbed/narcissistic or self-effacing/over-involved in the kiddo.
But the larger generations in the past did have very close bonding and surrogate parenthood even from older to younger children. And, as you point out, grandparents were more likely to be present as well.
I’ve regularly read that American children are scoring higher on the narcissism scale all the time, and I think it is over-investment and/or lack of surrogates for narcissistic or otherwise damaged parents, both trends driven by smaller family sizes, that is driving the dynamic.
Agreed, Trump is a showman, he knows how to put on a show. However, unlike Obama (or a true narcissist) he gets things done. Trump is not an all hat no cattle type, so to claim he’s a narcissist at his core is a bit over the top.
He’s great at self promotion and knows how to use it to his benefit to get things done, not to simply stroke his ego. Don’t get me wrong he has one, and I am sure its no small one, but Trump is no narcissist.
Once again, you are confusing a real, diagnosable mental disorder with something relating to selfishness. There is no ‘narcissism scale’ with the mental disorder. Read up on it, parental over involvement isn’t part of creating the real disorder.
Real narcissistists are evil. Not just annoying.
I have and you are mistaken. I suggest you brush up on it if you think you know better.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103469
http://lifecounsel.org/pub_floyd_understandingNarcissism.html
I know all about it. That’s why I know several of your statements were wrong about the mental disorder.
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