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Yup. All of Eric Hoffer's 'The True Believer' (1951) is applicable to Trump, but this bit is particularly salient.
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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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Buddy, that's obvious. But who said that Masters of Propaganda wait? They never wait on them--they bend/exploit existing ones. (cont'd)
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Matter of degree I suppose. You'd have to model the situation. I think "political elasticity" is generally lower than people think
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