Eh, “blame the minorities to get elected, fail to solve actual problems” is the easiest political play in the book.
It doesn’t take a genius to come up with that one.
Says more about voters and our information environment than it does about Trump.
Actual solutions to complex problems tend to be complex. Fake solutions can get away with being 3 word slogans. The latter has a huge structural advantage in politics, especially in our current information environment where people can’t focus on a single problem for more than 5 seconds at a time.
It doesn’t take a genius to come up with that one.
Says more about voters and our information environment than it does about Trump.
Actual solutions to complex problems tend to be complex. Fake solutions can get away with being 3 word slogans. The latter has a huge structural advantage in politics, especially in our current information environment where people can’t focus on a single problem for more than 5 seconds at a time.