Monday, August 24, 2015

Trump speaks in generalities

The fatigue and frustration within politics is rampant at the grassroots level. It's also created the support of Donald Trump.
From the piece: The truth is simply that Trump is the personification of all frustrations, criticisms and ill-will that have accumulated over the last decade of political promises made with soaring rhetoric on the campaign trail to persuade swaths of voters...
It's next to impossible for a traditional candidate to shame a guy who doesn't pretend — for votes or money. While traditional candidates implement a strategy of appealing to the base during a primary, then moving to the political center during a general campaign, Trump has one direction and one gear — forward and full-blast.
Instead of having different messages tailored for the Chamber of Commerce crowd and the back-porch crowd, Donald Trump tells stories and speaks in the generalities of returning America to greatness...

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