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Title: Dilbert Creator: Trump ‘Invulnerable’ If Beats Disability Flap
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... able-if-beats-disability-flap/
Published: Nov 27, 2015
Author: Joel B. Pollak
Post Date: 2015-11-27 18:37:01 by cranky
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Views: 12176
Comments: 74
“If he survives this one, he’s invulnerable,” Adams said. Adams took to Periscope on Friday afternoon to promote his new book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, and answered questions from fans. Recently, Adams has written about his conviction that Donald Trump will win the presidency, based on his use of sophisticated techniques of public persuasion. Adams told Reason magazine that Trump uses perceived insults to beat back opponents: “What I [see] in Trump,” says Adams, is “someone who was highly trained. A lot of the things that the media were reporting as sort of random insults and bluster and just Trump being Trump, looked to me like a lot of deep technique that I recognized from the fields of hypnosis and persuasion.”… Similarly, where the media see random insults, Adams sees Trump creating a significant polling gap between those who attack him and those who compliment him, resulting in chilled aggression from his opponents. Trump, says Adams, uses “anchors,” which are big, visual thoughts that drown out any other argument. Think, for example, of the billionaire’s florid descriptions of a Mexican border wall. Trump stands accused of having mocked the Times‘ Serge Kovaleski, in a spat originating in a dispute over whether “thousands” of Muslims had cheered the Sep. 11, 2001 terror attacks from Jersey City. Trump maintains he did not mock the reporter and has demanded that the Times apologize to him rather than the other way around. None of the past controversies seems to have dented Trump’s lead in the polls, especially as broader news events, such as the Paris terror attacks, seem to be boosting his national lead in the Republican race. 
Dilbert creator Scott Adams said Friday afternoon that if Donald Trump survives the ongoing controversy about whether he made fun of New York Times reporter’s disability, he will be a lock to win the presidency.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Trump has to be better than the other, anti-Americans who are running.
I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice.
If they think he is the Teflon Don and will beat Hildebeeste, they might embrace him. After all, Trump is basically a big-government lib like most of the GOP elite is. None of that nasty small-government stuff they don't really like.
If that's so, it's going to disappoint many of his followers.
Does anyone really believe Trump is a small-government conservative? He's not even necessarily a low-tax Republican. He is friendly to unions, has few problems with buying off packs of local pols when he tries to start a big new real estate project or leisure venue, etc. To Trump, these things just are and, while undesirable or inconvenient at times, are in Trump's view just a part of the cost of doing business in a heavily regulated locality. And, with his use of and enthusiasm for aggressive use of eminent domain laws, he also has found substantial advantages in liberal big-government policy. It is easy to make the case that Trump is and has always been a big-government liberal, even if he might be a big-government northeastern liberal Republican at heart. This is part of his appeal to voters and I think at least 5%-10% of his support comes from big-government Republican types spread around the country. As I recall it, there were about 9% of registered Republicans who voted for Obama and you can't exactly call a Republican who voted for Obama any flavor of "conservative". These would be Republicans in the sense that David Brooks of the NYSlimes is a Republican, which mostly consists of taking the Dem side in most every policy divide while sneering at other Republicans who don't agree with the liberal position. Brooks is a tame "house conservative" at the Slimes, even more so than an Alan Colmes or a Juan Willians would be "house liberals" at FoxNews. Is Trump so different from a Nelson Rockefeller, in his era the gold standard for the rock-ribbed northeastern liberal Republican?
That would be a generous description . He also has been a strong proponent for liberal social causes too . He to this day supports universal-single payer health care .Until recently he was for an 'assault rifle' ban. He publically supported pro-choice until recently (he claimed to be pro-choice in his book 'The America We Deserve' ,and in interviews around 2000).He then switched position in 2011 ;about the same time that he decided to run as a Republican). He has in fact comfortably switched from one party to the other in the course of his public life. Any one of his liberal positions would've sunk any other Republican candidate . Yet he still leads while taking these positions : 1 in favor of a progressive income tax instead of a flat tax. 2 has said he would not change entitlements. 3 he is in favor of the status quo funding of Planned Parenthood. 4 has stated in the past that he favors legalizing drugs.(yes some libertarians who align with Republicans believe that too ) 5 He praised the emperor and his stimulus package in 2009.
Giuliani, even with his I'd-pay-for-my-daughter's-abortion and his photos with HCI and Brady gun control nutjobs (not to mention his lurid cross-dressing with Teh Donald) was considered too liberal in 2008. But in 2016, Trump is The Guy? There is something wrong with the voters when a Giuliani with a strong record of governing a large complex Dem stronghold is too liberal for GOP voters but Teh Donald is just fine. You notice a few of the Trump fanbois are already leaping to Donald's defense, even when I describe him -- fairly accurately -- as the second coming of Nelson Rockefeller, a description you bolstered with a recitation of facts about Trump's public positions.
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#3. To: Don (#1)
Trump has to be better than the other, anti-Americans who are running.
#8. To: cranky (#3)
I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice.
#9. To: TooConservative (#8)
After all, Trump is basically a big-government lib like most of the GOP elite is.
#11. To: cranky, A K A Stone, Vicomte13, tomder55, sneakypete (#9)
If that's so, it's going to disappoint many of his followers.
#16. To: TooConservative, cranky, A K A Stone, Vicomte13, sneakypete (#11)
Is Trump so different from a Nelson Rockefeller, in his era the gold standard for the rock-ribbed northeastern liberal Republican?
#18. To: tomder55 (#16)
Any one of his liberal positions would've sunk any other Republican candidate .
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