The Clinton campaign is run by a committee of apparatchiks who have no other job experience and who have been managing her for years, if not decades. Money has been no object. There are tons of it and they are very experienced in how to get more. She has traded on her gender, her name and formulaic racial/gender/economic divisions. She staked out an emotional territory and spent years defending it, sort of a political Maginot Line.
Trump largely controls his own campaign, influenced by a lifetime of real business experience. While he is a billionaire with hundreds of dollars a year in available income, he knows money can evaporate and utilized this resource efficiently. He has traded on fifty years of actual experience and success in the business world, which includes knowing how to recognize potential failure and how to recover from actual failure. He has presented himself as the archetypal Hero, making his campaign about the country and the populace. He waged a mostly nimble, multi-front guerilla campaign.
This “smartest woman in the world”, with her dedicated and too-smart-by-half crew, totally missed some truths about the 21st century: vast information is available to nearly everyone; people are less and less walled off into easily identified divisions; her three most essential demographics (youth/communities of color/women)are more fluid than they were in the past. All this makes it more difficult to manipulate them with obsolete memes.
Donald is that guy most ethnic males want to emulate. As one black supporter said:”He’s a baller.” Many women see him as the brash, annoying guy who nevertheless can and will be counted on to take care of them. He can perform most of the 100 essential tasks Heinlein outlined as essential.Over time, this is endearing. The unindoctrinated youth recognize him as an unconventional leader.
Humans recognize strong leaders almost by instinct. Progs have tried to eradicate that sort of response, but it’s hormonal and genetically determined. Hillary’s strength was an illusion created by a corrupt media. Donald’s strength is pheromone-based and by-passes the gaslighting.
Watching this unfold, I’ve come to doubt Clinton even had a strategy and what strategy she displayed was stale and over-managed. Donald tacked with the wind and hewed to the truth.
No contest.
‘He is a billionaire with hundreds OF MILLIONS of dollars a year in income...”
Sorry. Not enough coffee.
Great intelligent post.
Don’t forget, those DNC operatives running the voter fraud campaign might be intimidated by her tactics from their first hand knowledge, and cast their multiple votes for Trump instead of her. A landslide might be in the making.
Zogs is also a Democrat, so this is very telling coming from him.
I come onto this site to learn something new everyday.
Today I read your post and learned something new, mainly about Robert Heinlein. Thank you for that.