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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any prior can be exploited multiple ways -- different stories & different outcomes possible for same prior. (cont'd)
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but I think we agree on that people/priors aren't infinitely malleable --
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There's evidence Trump considered several other times/opps, decided they weren't right. This was the weak field+angry mob. 20 yr wait
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Could be. If so, shrewd decision-making. Augurs poorly for HRC.

