ANY president should show a basic understanding at a high level and defer to experts for details. The worst things many of the candidate in the primaries said were like “I know how to fix health care” or “I know how to defeat ISIS” or “I know how to reduce crime” ... If true, those people should be on the team to fix that one issue they claim to understand better than anyone else in the country. They should not be running the solutions to every problem and micromanaging all those people who don’t know as much as them on their area of expertise.
They should know
* the problems/issues
* the people who need to come together to solve them
* how to get people to work together and implement solutions
Trump’s strengths for decades have been
* Setting goals
* Selecting (and firing) the right people
* Enabling people to achieve his goals including groups who often disagree with each other (e.g. union, non-union, government)
Hillary’s strength has been
* Being a woman
* Being “the smartest women in the world”
Hillary will once again accomplish nothing no matter how many “facts” she knows because being smarter than everyone under you hurts rather than helps unless you have just the right personality and management style - which she has shown to not have over and over.
If you don’t like Trump’s goals, he’s the wrong person to vote for. If you like his goals, he is exactly the person to vote for no matter how deep or shallow his personal knowledge or experience in the details. I wish there was more messaging about that aspect of Trump’s experience.
Even if you don’t like his goals you should still vote for Trump because he is the only one who has ever managed anything successfully.
If I remember correctly, in one of his books, he wrote that you shouldn’t be afraid to hire people smarter than you. While some say he’s too egotistical, he also couldn’t have reached the point he’s reached without surrounding himself with the right people/the experts.
They are there to help you solve a problem. When the problem is solved you give them another one or you wish them good luck in their next venture
So, when he says that he can/will defeat ISIS, it’s my belief that he’s going to surround himself with the best and brightest warfighters, tacticians, etc, that have America’s best interests in mind and unleash hell on them. When he’s done, he’ll just wipe his hands, give credit to those that helped and move onto the next one. That’s what leaders do.
John FTA Kerry said in 2004 that he knew how to fix Iraq. Fast forward 12 years and he still has not divulged his cure nor has he fixed Iraq as Sec. of State.