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I'd be interested in seeing an update to this piece. Doubling down on shamelessness got Trump the second most votes ever by a presidential candidate but lost t
by Ensorceled 6y ago
I'd be interested in seeing an update to this piece. Doubling down on shamelessness got Trump the second most votes ever by a presidential candidate but lost the election. Doubling down on shamelessness might still cost the GOP the Senate.
Maybe there is, to quote Lincoln, a "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." quality to shamelessness?
- baybal2 6y agoEven fooling just 10% of people is more than enough. It's always been better to have 10 rabidly fanatical followers than having 1000 passerby fans
- neogodless 6y agoUnless you need to win more votes than your opponent. I don't think you can generalize politics and startups in the same breath with an aphorism. We are in a rather polarized political climate, so being a bit more extreme does seem to get you more attention and maybe more votes than being more centrist. But the 2020 U.S. Presidential election actually refuted this statement in the article: > ...in the same way that any major politician sticking to a pre-2016 playbook today is almost certainly not going to win. Biden was much more centrist/bi-partisan (in his messaging) than any of the other potential Democrat candidate, but he won the popular and electoral votes.
- Bakary 6y ago>I'd be interested in seeing an update to this piece. Doubling down on shamelessness got Trump the second most votes ever by a presidential candidate but lost the election. Doubling down on shamelessness might still cost the GOP the Senate. I would hardly qualify that as a strong rebuke of the idea so far