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The GOPe/bloggers/National Review types really are stupid. I don't usually accuse people of being stupid, but in terms of where we are in cluture and media, it is clear they just don't get it. We are in a different era of how people are perceived. I keep coming back to the article I recommended a month ago, "The Strange Stillbirth of the Whig Party" that pointed out that the Whigs were dead from the get-go because they didn't get that politics had changed from little elite clubs to a national, democratic, popular participation-type structure. The Whigs kept thinking that they could run things the same old way. I'm reminded of the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo saying of the French, "They keep coming on in the same old way and we shall send them back in the same old way." So when you have something like these stacked debates: the new era is Drudge, internet polls. People read that---many of whom never WATCH the debate---and say, "Trump won." Cruz is debating like he is in college, Trump is debating like he's int he 21st century media.

The GOPe/bloggers/National Review types really are stupid.

I think the reason the GOPe and NRO types don't get it is because they are not creative personality types and are pretty much dependent on the dying paradigm.

I saw this same kind of behavior in my career on Wall St.

The non creative types couldn't adapt to change and the creative types were always looking for new ways to do things.

One's life is dependent on the status quo (read old paradigm) and one is dependent to perpetual change.

Trump is one of the creative types...always looking for new trends in real estate markets and design. He would approach life in general in the same way.

“The new era is Drudge, internet polls. People read that-—many of whom never WATCH the debate-—and say, “Trump won.””

Excellent point.