Thanks! Appreciate all the good comments here. The beautiful thing is with Free Republic you get feedback right away from a post — and from intelligent readers. It’s motiviating.
And yes, you are correct. I spent a while figuring out how to format the piece in HTML. That’s another beauty of FR. You get the ability make a post look the way you want it.
Of course, by looking at the source code, anybody can take the framework I made and use it for their own story — just substitute text and pictures. Basically this is just one big HTML table.
Would love to see somebody in the Trump campaign link to the story. Not sure how to make that happen.
You’re welcome!
I think you’re the first on the web to compare The Art of the Deal to the Trump 2016 candidacy.
And it’s eye opening.
I was wondering why it hasn’t been done before. Maybe because Team Trump didn’t want anyone to give away its game plan, and they’ve been taking down any of those stories.
But then that would be futile. Based on what you wrote, it’s plain as day exactly what Team Trump is doing. Any enterprising and curious mind would eventually discover it.
I don’t think Trump has to worry about any of his competitors figuring out his game plan or using it against him if they study your post or anything else like it.
That’s because Trump has the advantage in using Art of the Deal tactics in 2016: no one else can use them as well as he does. He already has decades worth of experience using them. And he has already cornered the market on many of them in 2016, such as Think Big, Contain the Costs, and Having Fun.
So thanks again for sharing it with us, FR, and the Web.
I hope Trump’s people see it. I’m sure they already have. Some here have already mentioned or hinted they’ve shared it with their networks.
Also, congrats on your new market-analyst business!