Quote Originally Posted by ThePieWhoCameIn View Post
You are of course entitled to interpret his career as you see it. I see a man who was given a property company by his Dad, and who went on to have several ventures file for bankruptcy. Not exactly an average Joe made good.
He may not be stellar at selling real estate, but what I can credit him with is an incredible ability to sell himself. And that's what he's done politically. The Americans seem to like big egos in a way Brits just can't get their head around.

I am curious as to how far the cult of Trump can take him. We already know the playbook. Rules are for others. Create chaos and use it to your advantage. Never acknowledge weakness or blame If things go wrong. If he follows through on most of what he's proposing, things could go very wrong economically but it will be someone else's fault. Someone will be called 'horrible' and 'nasty'.

But will the public swallow it? Can he take them with him? Or will they realise his worst nightmare and decide he's the one thing he'd despise most of all. A loser.
Will the public swallow it? That's a shocking statement to make and quite patronising. I think you'll find that over three elections 63 million, 74 million and 77 million respectively voted for him. Are you inferring that many voted for him on a whim or because they weren't intelligent enough to know better?

I think you'll also find that Trump is doing something that the Democrats have never done (and many Republican Presidents haven't done either) since time immemorial and that is do what he said he was going to do.

I believe you'll find that many of the Democratic Party voters and leaders are well below Trump's intellectual level. if you want proof, look how the Democrats are carrying out their National Committee election - a complete mess.

Give the American people a bit more credit. After all, at least they didn't vote in someone like the leader of the UK Labour Party.