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 i
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 by his presidency, in fact he has far outdone my expectations. I can give you some metrics as I see them. Economically the country seems to be in a good shape, stock markets and all, but more importantly I see considerably more jobs in tech, at least in my area, now than in 2016, and the nationwide job market reports seem to be the best they can be (in CNBC's words). Politically, Trump -- socially a liberal and a Democrat until 2009 -- has managed to unite most Republicans behind him. Foreign policy I am quite happy with, he's doing exactly what he said he would in the debates. I have never seen this country ruin other countries less than during the Trump era. (Obama would be quite there too if not for his administration's first term.) The swamp is far from drained but I never really believed he'd last longer than a snowflake in hell -- realistically a few months -- fighting the entrenched bureaucratic powers. That he's still fighting that fight is quite an achievement to me. There are some downsides, mostly environmental, but they were expected and the impact remains to be seen. None of the fears were realized. Trump's instincts seem to be working most of the time, and he seems to learn when they aren't.
Again we can make some predictions and see which model is better, but if you'd believe me I what we have now is consistent with what I thought of him and close to what I had expected from "ideal Trump".
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
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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 i
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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.
Re:Trump is not wrong, but it is tainted (Score:2)
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 by his presidency, in fact he has far outdone my expectations. I can give you some metrics as I see them. Economically the country seems to be in a good shape, stock markets and all, but more importantly I see considerably more jobs in tech, at least in my area, now than in 2016, and the nationwide job market reports seem to be the best they can be (in CNBC's words). Politically, Trump -- socially a liberal and a Democrat until 2009 -- has managed to unite most Republicans behind him. Foreign policy I am quite happy with, he's doing exactly what he said he would in the debates. I have never seen this country ruin other countries less than during the Trump era. (Obama would be quite there too if not for his administration's first term.) The swamp is far from drained but I never really believed he'd last longer than a snowflake in hell -- realistically a few months -- fighting the entrenched bureaucratic powers. That he's still fighting that fight is quite an achievement to me. There are some downsides, mostly environmental, but they were expected and the impact remains to be seen. None of the fears were realized. Trump's instincts seem to be working most of the time, and he seems to learn when they aren't.
Again we can make some predictions and see which model is better, but if you'd believe me I what we have now is consistent with what I thought of him and close to what I had expected from "ideal Trump".