Trump is running for the Presidency as if he was selling toothpaste.
Look at toothpaste ads on TV. 10 years ago, it was all about Tooth Decay. 10 years before that, it was all about Fresh Breath. Nowadays it is all about Whitening, to the point where you see people on the street with teeth so white they glow.
Toothpaste companies did not decide to emphasize whitening. Toothpaste companies just listened to the customers, and when whitening products started to sell, they introduced new lines and made whitening the core of their business. A whole new player, Rembrandt, jumped into the market, and now everybody sells a whitening product.
Think about that. A new toothpaste brand with major market share. You know how hard it is to do that? Every consumer in the country goes to the store each week and buys what they bought last week, and now there is a new toothpaste brand. Most marketing people would call that so unlikely to be almost impossible.
To bring this back around to Donald Trump...
Donald Trump is selling himself as if he were a tube of toothpaste. To do that, he said a lot of things, and then listened to what people liked. He starts out with five things... balance the budget, kill ISIS, build the wall, eliminate NAFTA and traditional marriage... and as he is talking, he listens to how people react. He got huge reactions to “kill ISIS” and “build the wall”, so he made these things the center of his campaign. And now the entire market is about building the wall and killing ISIS. He managed to launch a new brand of toothpaste, and it’s amazing.
This is America. In America, the innovator is rewarded. Donald Trump has revolutionized the process of running for President.
What that has to do with actually being President is anybody’s guess. It’s like when your perfectly white teeth fall out of your head because of tooth decay that your new toothpaste did nothing to prevent, and the toothpaste company points out that those teeth in your hand sure are bright and white... What good is that going to do you?
Here is one for your analogy.
As of last night, out of seven people in two parties running, Trump remains 5 he sole candidate committed even verbally to securing our borders and removing people who shouldn’t be here.
Will he deliver?
Well, the other six candidates have said that they won’t.
Ted lost me with his Viva La Raza Rubio last night.
Not sure what I will do Tuesday now.
It damned sure won’t be voting for Cruz. I may write in Roy Moore, I may hold my nose and vote for Trump. Yesterday was a bad day.
Great posting and very good analogy!
Trump has done a lot more than that. He was a national fundraiser for Reagan. He has advocated free market solutions in his books for years. He has the best tax plan of any candidate. He would replace Obamacare with a free market solution (when Rubio, for example, wouldn’t). You can see old video clips of Trump 20 years ago giving essentially the same speech re: trade, free markets and the military as he is giving today.