Trumping the Media: Donald Continually Confounds the MSM https://t.co/hwNi9aj5EN #RogersRules via @pjmedia_com
— PubliusNV (@PubliusNV) November 22, 2016
...Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip. Adams, at his blog, has been providing some of the most original and most penetrating commentary on the whole Trump phenomenon.
I was, I admit, a little taken aback when I first encountered his description of Trump as a "Master Persuader" (see here, for example, or here), but the more I think about it, the more right I think he is. Trump on the stump was not articulate in any traditional sense. He was repetitious, digressive, given to stumbling about in sentence fragments. But he honed a message that resonated deeply with the voters.
Adams noted the following in a column posted yesterday:
If you believe Trump’s skill for persuasion wasn’t the key variable in his win, you have to imagine some other candidate beating Clinton with the same set of policies as Trump. Personally, I can’t imagine it.I commend Adams' blog to you: among other things, he shows that the people who are protesting against Trump are not really protesting against Trump.
They're protesting against a hallucination they call "Trump" that has almost nothing to do with the man who is now the president-elect....
◼ Welcome to Trump Territory - Robert Stacy McCain
...Somebody needs to tell these young kids the truth, i.e., your Republican grandma is not a Nazi, and Trump is not Hitler. Also, while we’re speaking truth, capitalism works and socialism fails, and maybe if you kids would stop moping and whining about how “oppressed” you are, you could get a real job, save your money, and 40 or 50 years from now, you’ll be living in sunny Florida, rich enough to vote Republican.
