Molson Hart

This is going to sound stupid to a lot of people, but, for me, it was enlightening so here goes: Trump has lower favorability in Washington DC than anywhere else in this country. I used to think this was the case because Washington DC is politically very different from Trump 1/n

Or because Trump’s stated mission was to “drain the swamp” and that the “swamp” understandably wasn’t too happy about being drained. What I learned instead is that people in DC think that he’s an idiot, but not necessarily in the sense that he’s physically stupid but that 2/n

He’s not only a complete novice and amateur to the political process, but also arrogant about it. For example, in DC, there is a way to get things done, and in many respects, it is counterintuitive and bizarre. You need to understand the system, in order to enact change 3/n

Through it. Trump doesn’t know how to use and navigate the system and has taken a BATNA approach to it, I.e., rather than learning how DC works (and to be clear I’m not saying it’s corrupt, I’m saying it’s a different game from what Trump knows), he’s basically said 4/n