Who hasn’t heard of the internet? What does the internet mean? It means everyone in the world gets to see this stuff. All the leaders of other countries, all the ordinary citizens:
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I wish we could get over these discussions on persuasion and politics. When you call a plumber for an emergency do you insist he be persuasive and personable? We have given the highest office in the land and maybe put in place the leader of the free world to someone whose greatest advantage is he may offend the fewest people. He impresses no one.
The Master Persuader only makes claims he knows will eventually be proven true or that can never be proven false. Now, you can make your own judgment about how truthful with his claims trump has actually been, but I would submit that however outlandish you find the claims he made (I rarely found them outlandish at all), if you evaluate them for how truthful they are it's very hard to judge them factually false. Now again, this is because the vast majority of Trump's claims are very very general in nature i.e. "She's crooked!" ...but the point of persuasion is not to convince you that Hillary Clinton has factually been convicted of a crime and has served time and so is in fact a convicted criminal, and there for Trump is factually correct in the moment, the goal of the persuader is to persuade you that eventually the truth will come out of which the persuader is certain. To play this kind of rhetorical game requires , to my mind, unbelievable discipline - it will not do to be proven wrong too many times, or poof there goes your persuasive power. And you simply cannot mind the counter that your opponents will throw your way -- you lie, you are a liar, a boor, a dimwit, you are crude, you are a danger, you are Nazi, whatever... Look at the whole vaccine issue through that prism. Big, beautiful vaccines - he has never wavered. That is the discipline of the master persuader. We may not like it, we may wish he would react differently, with more nuance or more ethically, but he's the one who got elected president and is single-handedly turning a corrupt political party over.