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There's very little doubt that Trump is an extremely smart person. Also, see http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism http://www.vox.com/2

There's very little doubt that Trump is an extremely smart person. Also, see http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...

tonyedgecombe 10y ago
I have quite a bit of doubt about that.
djur 10y ago
I don't see how your link to an article written by a writer who was censured for advocating riots against Trump is evidence that he is a smart person. Can you explain in any more detail?
- kofejnik 10y ago
  my link is about liberals tending to think of non-liberals as uneducated unwashed masses
- smt88 10y ago
  Lots of terrible people are still very smart. He could incite riots at the same time as thinking Trump is smart. I'd argue that, to capture the attention of hundreds of millions of people around the world using so little money, someone would have to be pretty smart.
lorenzhs 10y ago
I don't think the GP meant to say that Trump isn't smart. It's that the policies he suggests are meant to appeal to feelings, not rationality. They are thus more likely to attract voters who don't think through what those policies could mean, were they to be implemented. (Not saying those are all of his voters, there are other motivations as well. Also not from the US.)
- kofejnik 10y ago
  To the contrary, I find many of his proposals very rational, and this rationality seems to hurt many people's feelings
- internaut 10y ago
  To play devil's advocate: I think Trump supporters would say that there are simple truth about the universe that faux sophisticated liberals don't grasp or weight equally with less important things. I believe that orthodoxies of the past half century have been a failure. If average wealth has not risen for decades, a fact, then there is something wrong with your model. Notice the slogan is not Make America Great. It is Make America Great Again. That admission of failure is fascinating and completely ignored.

tonyedgecombe 10y ago

I have quite a bit of doubt about that.

djur 10y ago

I don't see how your link to an article written by a writer who was censured for advocating riots against Trump is evidence that he is a smart person. Can you explain in any more detail?

kofejnik 10y ago
my link is about liberals tending to think of non-liberals as uneducated unwashed masses
smt88 10y ago
Lots of terrible people are still very smart. He could incite riots at the same time as thinking Trump is smart. I'd argue that, to capture the attention of hundreds of millions of people around the world using so little money, someone would have to be pretty smart.

lorenzhs 10y ago

I don't think the GP meant to say that Trump isn't smart. It's that the policies he suggests are meant to appeal to feelings, not rationality. They are thus more likely to attract voters who don't think through what those policies could mean, were they to be implemented. (Not saying those are all of his voters, there are other motivations as well. Also not from the US.)

kofejnik 10y ago
To the contrary, I find many of his proposals very rational, and this rationality seems to hurt many people's feelings
internaut 10y ago
To play devil's advocate: I think Trump supporters would say that there are simple truth about the universe that faux sophisticated liberals don't grasp or weight equally with less important things. I believe that orthodoxies of the past half century have been a failure. If average wealth has not risen for decades, a fact, then there is something wrong with your model. Notice the slogan is not Make America Great. It is Make America Great Again. That admission of failure is fascinating and completely ignored.