Scott Adams has been predicting Trump beats Hillary in a landslide. He has argued Trump is a Master Persuader who appeals to emotions and not facts.
Greg points me to Adams reaction to Hillary's Thursday speech. Adams was impressed.
"It appears that the Clinton campaign has wisely decided to abandon its claim to reason, facts, and other losing strategies, and go “full fear” as their persuasion theme. The idea is that pairing Trump with nuclear war will make him unelectable."
"That could work!"
"Fear is a strong motivator. It is even stronger than Make America Great, because fear generally tops opportunity in our emotional priorities. If Clinton turns up the fear-o-meter to maximum, that’s all anyone will remember."
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145354924661/now-its-a-fair-fight
Adams stands by his prediction but he is also now announcing that he is endorsing Hillary Clinton.
"This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear. "
"That is good persuasion if you can pull it off because fear is a strong motivator. It is also a sharp pivot from Clinton’s prior approach of talking about her mastery of policy details, her experience, and her gender. Trump took her so-called “woman card” and turned it into a liability. So Clinton wisely pivoted. Her new scare tactics are solid-gold persuasion. I wouldn’t be surprised if you see Clinton’s numbers versus Trump improve in June, at least temporarily, until Trump finds a counter-move."
"The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels)."
"If Clinton successfully pairs Trump with Hitler in your mind – as she is doing – and loses anyway, about a quarter of the country will think it is morally justified to assassinate their own leader. I too would feel that way if an actual Hitler came to power in this country. I would join the resistance and try to take out the Hitler-like leader. You should do the same. No one wants an actual President Hitler."
"So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president."
"As I have often said, I have no psychic powers and I don’t know which candidate would be the best president. But I do know which outcome is most likely to get me killed by my fellow citizens. So for safety reason, I’m on team Clinton."
"My prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide based on his superior persuasion skills. But don’t blame me for anything President Trump does in office because I endorse Clinton."
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for-president-of-the-united-states
Aha! So Hilary and her supporters-like myself-have managed to be pretty persuasive ourselves.
Indeed, I have already personally likened Adams to Joseph Goebbels).
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/scott-adams-has-became-trumps-chief.html?showComment=1464693160032#c5272759827443695560
So maybe Hillary and her supporters are up to Trump's Masterly Persuasiveness. Indeed, this is why I wanted to run against him from the start: because he can very credibly be likened to Hitler.
P.S. To too my own horn, I've used some of this with Bernie as well. In my last post I likened him to the Stalinists in 1932 who insisted there is no difference between Hitler and the Social Democrats.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/06/bernie-goes-full-false-equivalence.html
I haven't likened Bernie to Stalin a lot-though I've implied it. Certainly I've found something Stalinist about the Berners.
Trump is in the big leagues now.
We Dems have been very disciplined. We very carefully held back until he was the nominee. Now the gloves come off.
Even Adams is impressed enough to already fear for his own safety. And there will be five months of this.
Greg points me to Adams reaction to Hillary's Thursday speech. Adams was impressed.
"It appears that the Clinton campaign has wisely decided to abandon its claim to reason, facts, and other losing strategies, and go “full fear” as their persuasion theme. The idea is that pairing Trump with nuclear war will make him unelectable."
"That could work!"
"Fear is a strong motivator. It is even stronger than Make America Great, because fear generally tops opportunity in our emotional priorities. If Clinton turns up the fear-o-meter to maximum, that’s all anyone will remember."
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145354924661/now-its-a-fair-fight
Adams stands by his prediction but he is also now announcing that he is endorsing Hillary Clinton.
"This past week we saw Clinton pair the idea of President Trump with nuclear disaster, racism, Hitler, the Holocaust, and whatever else makes you tremble in fear. "
"That is good persuasion if you can pull it off because fear is a strong motivator. It is also a sharp pivot from Clinton’s prior approach of talking about her mastery of policy details, her experience, and her gender. Trump took her so-called “woman card” and turned it into a liability. So Clinton wisely pivoted. Her new scare tactics are solid-gold persuasion. I wouldn’t be surprised if you see Clinton’s numbers versus Trump improve in June, at least temporarily, until Trump finds a counter-move."
"The only downside I can see to the new approach is that it is likely to trigger a race war in the United States. And I would be a top-ten assassination target in that scenario because once you define Trump as Hitler, you also give citizens moral permission to kill him. And obviously it would be okay to kill anyone who actively supports a genocidal dictator, including anyone who wrote about his persuasion skills in positive terms. (I’m called an “apologist” on Twitter, or sometimes just Joseph Goebbels)."
"If Clinton successfully pairs Trump with Hitler in your mind – as she is doing – and loses anyway, about a quarter of the country will think it is morally justified to assassinate their own leader. I too would feel that way if an actual Hitler came to power in this country. I would join the resistance and try to take out the Hitler-like leader. You should do the same. No one wants an actual President Hitler."
"So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety. Trump supporters don’t have any bad feelings about patriotic Americans such as myself, so I’ll be safe from that crowd. But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump. So I’m taking the safe way out and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president."
"As I have often said, I have no psychic powers and I don’t know which candidate would be the best president. But I do know which outcome is most likely to get me killed by my fellow citizens. So for safety reason, I’m on team Clinton."
"My prediction remains that Trump will win in a landslide based on his superior persuasion skills. But don’t blame me for anything President Trump does in office because I endorse Clinton."
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/145456082991/my-endorsement-for-president-of-the-united-states
Aha! So Hilary and her supporters-like myself-have managed to be pretty persuasive ourselves.
Indeed, I have already personally likened Adams to Joseph Goebbels).
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/05/scott-adams-has-became-trumps-chief.html?showComment=1464693160032#c5272759827443695560
So maybe Hillary and her supporters are up to Trump's Masterly Persuasiveness. Indeed, this is why I wanted to run against him from the start: because he can very credibly be likened to Hitler.
P.S. To too my own horn, I've used some of this with Bernie as well. In my last post I likened him to the Stalinists in 1932 who insisted there is no difference between Hitler and the Social Democrats.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/06/bernie-goes-full-false-equivalence.html
I haven't likened Bernie to Stalin a lot-though I've implied it. Certainly I've found something Stalinist about the Berners.
Trump is in the big leagues now.
We Dems have been very disciplined. We very carefully held back until he was the nominee. Now the gloves come off.
Even Adams is impressed enough to already fear for his own safety. And there will be five months of this.
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