Shakespeare and Trump

This is good. The more the establishment bashes Trump the more support he garners across the political spectrum.

wv wrote:

bnw wrote:

This is good. The more the establishment bashes Trump the more support he garners across the political spectrum.

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I dunno about that. There is a reason Obama never went all ‘attack-mode’
during his campaigns. He could have, but he didn’t. Now, maybe its
just his personality, but i kinda think the algebra favors a calm,
milk-toasty candidate in the end. I mean, sure the rightwingers love it when Trump is attacked and when Trump goes on the attack. The leftwingers (like me) dont care. We already sided with Sanders a long time ago. So who is left? Who will decide the election? The middle-ground, milk-toasties. And my ‘guess’ is, the algebra shows they dont like ‘attackers’ or bombastic-scary candidates.
I mean there is a reason Trump has ‘reined it in’ a bit, right? His handlers are trying to negotiate/maneuver/decide whether and how much “to let trump, be trump” i bet.

I could be wrong, of course. I dont really follow campaign-algebra stuff, i just shoot from the hip based on my gut.

PS — i dont think trump is stupid, and i think its a mistake when people think his is or write that he is. I think he’s smarter than Reagan ever was, or G.Bush II. I do think he has huge blind spots, probly in foreign policy, but a lot of candidates have had huge blind spots and still won elections.

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He is being told to rein it in but he will always counterpunch hard when attacked. I think the times are so hard so many places in this country that even a good share of the otherwise milquetoast voter will demand change by voting for Trump. What do you consider his blind spots in foreign policy? He gave a prepared speech on his foreign policy a few weeks ago. The other day he did the same on energy policy.

Foreign policy speech before the Center for National Interest on 4/27/16

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