8. Trump's distortions of the truth are different then lies, they are less amenable to being tested & less moored to reality.
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9. What is Trump's basic platform? It's this: "Trump is great and he'll fix all your problems." That's not so much a lie as bullshit.
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10. To any policy question, Trump's response is "I'm great. I'm a billionaire. I'll know how to fix things. I'll negotiate the best deal."
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11. Healthcare? "I'll rip up Obamacare & give you something great." Iran? "I'll rip up the deal and negotiate something great."
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12. Trump's bullshitting skills are a natural outgrowth of his prior careers in real estate, brand development and reality television.
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13. Of course, line between lying and bullshitting isn't absolute, and some prior politics (supply side economics, war on terror) conflate
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14. Still, best to see Jeb as liar: someone who has stated policies that can be refuted. Trump doesn't have policies but assertions.
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15. I should've said this before, but much of this is riffing off of Harry Frankfurt's work on BS.
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16. To put it another way, Trump's advantage is he doesn't think he's lying. He does believe his core argument: I"m great and can fix things
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@theseantcollins We're back to Pat Buchanan again?
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