Trump is not wrong on effects of Amazon and also its local tax-dodging, but his objections are tainted by his very clear political motivation. He is after Bezos as a revenge for The Washington Post coverage.
I disagree. Trump *benefits* from WaPo attacks because WaPo is seen as elitist, what better proof to your base that you're doing the right thing than when a "swamp-supporting" newspaper is upset with you.
Rather, in my opinion, Trump is a traditionalist (despite being socially fairly liberal), and he sees Amazon as attacking the American traditional way of life, hurting the working and middle class and so on. That attitude has been a pattern of his since the 80s. I don't know that Amazon can be stopped, and
Trump's down to his base of hard-core deplorables. That's not enough to win anything, although it is enough to greatly affect Republican primaries. He's been doing the wrong thing and hurting his supporters pretty steadily, so if they're still with him some more publicity won't make any difference.
If Trump were a traditionalist, he;'d operate his own businesses in a traditional matter. He's shown no desire to help the working and middle classes. He wants to unconstitutionally loot the Trea
Have you ever made any effort to imagine yourself being Trump, just to try to understand what his worldview may look like? This may sound like some esoteric psychology but is really what we unthinkingly do with everyone we can relate, whether they are family or friends or enemies. (Speaking of enemies, that ability to understand the other is presumably one of the reasons why Caesar was so successful in his military adventures.)
If you do that exercise on Trump -- without going into details of what may make it meaningful, but suffice to say we are humans who share common experiences and spend countless moments learning and relearning about one another and ourselves -- if you do that exercise on Trump, do you really think a very wealthy and successful 70-something guy who has had everything from possessions to affairs with beautiful women and who may well be in the last decade of his life would go through the tedium of running for president and being one just to cut his own taxes? That model of the mind you're proposing makes absolutely no sense to me. I have not seen such behavior anywhere. Best I can tell, people endure things like running and becoming President only because they are moved by something they feel is enormous in significance.
Regular folks intuit it easily, which is part of the reason Trump won, but the intellectuals especially on the left seem to have a hard time grasping that idea.
Of course not. He wanted to become President to feed his own ego. Having become President, he's favoring his own businesses and cutting his own taxes and attacking his personal enemies. Unfortunately for him, none of this is going to make him happy.
I do put myself in other's minds to the best of my ability. I can get some good insights that way.
As far as Trump supporters go, they lack such insight, or most of them would have realized that Trump would screw them over.
So we are on the same page methods-wise. Obviously we've come to very different conclusions. Less obviously perhaps neither of us will ever know what really goes on in Trump's mind. But we can put our models to test by making predictions what he might do in the future regarding specific situations. If you'd like to try, I'm game.
As for your remark, I consider myself a Trump supporter, have been since early 2016. I'm a registered Independent, formerly a registered Green. I don't consider myself screwed over
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Trump is not wrong, but it is tainted (Score:2, Insightful)
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I disagree. Trump *benefits* from WaPo attacks because WaPo is seen as elitist, what better proof to your base that you're doing the right thing than when a "swamp-supporting" newspaper is upset with you.
Rather, in my opinion, Trump is a traditionalist (despite being socially fairly liberal), and he sees Amazon as attacking the American traditional way of life, hurting the working and middle class and so on. That attitude has been a pattern of his since the 80s. I don't know that Amazon can be stopped, and
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Get real.
Trump's down to his base of hard-core deplorables. That's not enough to win anything, although it is enough to greatly affect Republican primaries. He's been doing the wrong thing and hurting his supporters pretty steadily, so if they're still with him some more publicity won't make any difference.
If Trump were a traditionalist, he;'d operate his own businesses in a traditional matter. He's shown no desire to help the working and middle classes. He wants to unconstitutionally loot the Trea
Re:Trump is not wrong, but it is tainted (Score:2)
Have you ever made any effort to imagine yourself being Trump, just to try to understand what his worldview may look like? This may sound like some esoteric psychology but is really what we unthinkingly do with everyone we can relate, whether they are family or friends or enemies. (Speaking of enemies, that ability to understand the other is presumably one of the reasons why Caesar was so successful in his military adventures.)
If you do that exercise on Trump -- without going into details of what may make it meaningful, but suffice to say we are humans who share common experiences and spend countless moments learning and relearning about one another and ourselves -- if you do that exercise on Trump, do you really think a very wealthy and successful 70-something guy who has had everything from possessions to affairs with beautiful women and who may well be in the last decade of his life would go through the tedium of running for president and being one just to cut his own taxes? That model of the mind you're proposing makes absolutely no sense to me. I have not seen such behavior anywhere. Best I can tell, people endure things like running and becoming President only because they are moved by something they feel is enormous in significance.
Regular folks intuit it easily, which is part of the reason Trump won, but the intellectuals especially on the left seem to have a hard time grasping that idea.
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Of course not. He wanted to become President to feed his own ego. Having become President, he's favoring his own businesses and cutting his own taxes and attacking his personal enemies. Unfortunately for him, none of this is going to make him happy.
I do put myself in other's minds to the best of my ability. I can get some good insights that way.
As far as Trump supporters go, they lack such insight, or most of them would have realized that Trump would screw them over.
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So we are on the same page methods-wise. Obviously we've come to very different conclusions. Less obviously perhaps neither of us will ever know what really goes on in Trump's mind. But we can put our models to test by making predictions what he might do in the future regarding specific situations. If you'd like to try, I'm game.
As for your remark, I consider myself a Trump supporter, have been since early 2016. I'm a registered Independent, formerly a registered Green. I don't consider myself screwed over