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True, true. And correctly identifying and taking into account those biases and blind spots can be a part of strategy. For example, Trump is clearly lead in part by his narcissism. But he also is led by a mob boss style approach to business, which he carried over into governance. I would say he’s neither a secret genius nor a total imbecile; rather, his forward-facing performance is so caricatured that it makes it hard to take him seriously at times. But this can be to his advantage, like when Hillary Clinton’s campaign tried to do the “pied piper” strategy to win the 2016 election and possibly helped him win instead, when he might otherwise have struggled more. On the other hand, I think he sincerely is a ridiculous person (like he’s not faking being one, at least not by this point in his career).
And because of how much power he has, the world has to take him seriously to a degree. And Yankees in particular have to contend with the fact that he has a base of support who doesn’t think he is a ridiculous person. Whose worldview somehow looks at him and goes, “He’s amazing.” And that suggests some differences going on in how those people see the world.
Completely agree with all that, Trump has this crazy persona that he leans into heavily, and he’s basically acting like a mobster. But, Trump is just a front man at the end of the day. It’s not like he can rule by decree, so the real decision making is happening in the deep state, and it’s not like anything we see is spontaneous. As Brian Berletic loves to point out, there are decades of policy papers written advocating for all these moves that we’re seeing the empire make.
True, true. And correctly identifying and taking into account those biases and blind spots can be a part of strategy. For example, Trump is clearly lead in part by his narcissism. But he also is led by a mob boss style approach to business, which he carried over into governance. I would say he’s neither a secret genius nor a total imbecile; rather, his forward-facing performance is so caricatured that it makes it hard to take him seriously at times. But this can be to his advantage, like when Hillary Clinton’s campaign tried to do the “pied piper” strategy to win the 2016 election and possibly helped him win instead, when he might otherwise have struggled more. On the other hand, I think he sincerely is a ridiculous person (like he’s not faking being one, at least not by this point in his career).
And because of how much power he has, the world has to take him seriously to a degree. And Yankees in particular have to contend with the fact that he has a base of support who doesn’t think he is a ridiculous person. Whose worldview somehow looks at him and goes, “He’s amazing.” And that suggests some differences going on in how those people see the world.
Completely agree with all that, Trump has this crazy persona that he leans into heavily, and he’s basically acting like a mobster. But, Trump is just a front man at the end of the day. It’s not like he can rule by decree, so the real decision making is happening in the deep state, and it’s not like anything we see is spontaneous. As Brian Berletic loves to point out, there are decades of policy papers written advocating for all these moves that we’re seeing the empire make.