Yup. All of Eric Hoffer's 'The True Believer' (1951) is applicable to Trump, but this bit is particularly salient.
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this is called 'playing to one's priors' -- the oldest, most effective marketing/propaganda trick in the book. cc
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Point is you can't create those priors. You can only wait for them, and they might never arrive, leaving your bid for power stillborn.
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seems the Republican Party has been primed for someone like Trump for a while. He just first with suff talent to exploit opportunity
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applicable to Trump and Sanders in many ways. Clinton doesn't really have problems with True Believers.
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all true, *still* requires a "gifted propagandist" as he puts it here. "Gifted" > "mediocre", yes?




