I just finished reading a book by Scott Adams, "Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter," which came out in 2017, right after DJT became Fantasist in Chief.
(I borrowed it from the Washoe County Library. Thanks, taxpayers.)
Adams devoted his blog through the 2016 election to praising FiC as a "master persuader," a rare skill. Adams considers himself a skilled persuader, making much of being a trained hypnotist.
I would have enjoyed the book more, learned more, without FiC as Example No. 1.
Adams, from Upstate New York originally, explains the threats FiC makes and the expressions he uses as NY traits. FiC's "win bigly," Adams writes, was really "win big league" but our unskilled ears misheard. FiC dines well on the syllables he swallows.
Adams still salutes Trump via blog. I wonder if it matters to him that his "master persuader" has the attention span of a goldfish and the self-control of a toddler? Shiny objects float by and off he goes. (Unless he is enraged and out for vengeance.)
Maybe it felt to Adams like FiC created an overall strategy to win the election, from gloriously broad ideas with no details (driving the News Media hilariously bananas) to editing his vocabulary to match his audiences. The News Media still falls for his bunkum; slow learners.
After FiC's semi-victory, he turned ethical monsters loose on innocents, and invited the me-first suckers to belly up at the Public Teat.
I scanned rather than read the final chapters, which are outdated by FiC's criminality and his real-estate developer's habit of cheating everybody.
The book does link FiC's behavior to specific actions of persuasion. 2020's presidential candidates should read it. Soon.
Don't look behind the FiC's curtain. Nobody home.
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