Trump as defiant: 1) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/us/politics/trump-remains-defiant-on-news-programs-amid-gop-backlash.html … 2) http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-09/trump-says-he-won-t-apologize-for-megyn-kelly-remark … 3) http://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-defiant-on-cnn-im-more-beloved-than-megyn-kelly-is/ … Who is he defying? Roger Ailes?
@enkiv2 So wouldn't "irrational" be a better word?
Or by common sense do you mean "conventional wisdom"?
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@emptywheel Originally I was going to say that he was defying logic. But, it may be that he's just proceeding from flawed axioms. -
@enkiv2 His axioms seem better grounded than that of pundits at least so far. -
@emptywheel Well, he might be taking as axiomatic the (empirically false) belief that he's a competent businessman.
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