This is pretty accurate. Your average person may not know all the details about a given issue but the PMC class has either been so wrong or lied about so many things that now the default feeling among those not part of the PMC is distrust. Also, they trust Trump because he may not know the details of most issues but he has been direction…
This is pretty accurate. Your average person may not know all the details about a given issue but the PMC class has either been so wrong or lied about so many things that now the default feeling among those not part of the PMC is distrust. Also, they trust Trump because he may not know the details of most issues but he has been directionally right about a number of things. Your avg. person does not sit around reading academic papers all day. They make decisions based on gut instinct. That is how Trump tends to make decisions and that is why they trust him more because they can relate to that.
That's right about the gut instincts. One of my favorite Trumpist quotations is, "he thinks like we do". But that only underscores the problem of somehow getting back to a fact-based, analytical approach to problem solving in a very complex society and economy that are facing "poly crisis".
He is a Property developer. Even bad property developers don't make instant decisions, they work on 7 year projects and think everything out in advance.
On the other hand they may be very good at understanding what the unspoken expectations of clients (or voters) are.
So when Trump calls out the Quad or says he wants good coal mining jobs for ordinary Americans, that may well sound exactly as "that is what I was thinking but didn't dare say". But be sure he is speaking from a very well rehearsed angle.
I'm tempted to say that it is very clever to understand the difference between teh way ordinary people think and say the PMC. Once upon a time that was probably true. But nowadays frankly it is easy.
The bottom 75% have 75% of the votes - the real question is how come Trump struggles so much to win.
This is pretty accurate. Your average person may not know all the details about a given issue but the PMC class has either been so wrong or lied about so many things that now the default feeling among those not part of the PMC is distrust. Also, they trust Trump because he may not know the details of most issues but he has been directionally right about a number of things. Your avg. person does not sit around reading academic papers all day. They make decisions based on gut instinct. That is how Trump tends to make decisions and that is why they trust him more because they can relate to that.
That's right about the gut instincts. One of my favorite Trumpist quotations is, "he thinks like we do". But that only underscores the problem of somehow getting back to a fact-based, analytical approach to problem solving in a very complex society and economy that are facing "poly crisis".
He is a Property developer. Even bad property developers don't make instant decisions, they work on 7 year projects and think everything out in advance.
On the other hand they may be very good at understanding what the unspoken expectations of clients (or voters) are.
So when Trump calls out the Quad or says he wants good coal mining jobs for ordinary Americans, that may well sound exactly as "that is what I was thinking but didn't dare say". But be sure he is speaking from a very well rehearsed angle.
I'm tempted to say that it is very clever to understand the difference between teh way ordinary people think and say the PMC. Once upon a time that was probably true. But nowadays frankly it is easy.
The bottom 75% have 75% of the votes - the real question is how come Trump struggles so much to win.