Back to episode — Episode 2701 CWSA 12/26/24
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nt that people thought oh in retrospect he was just drumming up publicity. And then this third time I think it was the third time he runs and what did everybody say? They said oh he's not serious he's just drumming up publicity he's just a clown trying to get some attention maybe. Here's what I think happened. I think in all three cases Trump did not expect to be a serious player. I think in all…
← Previous segment →brought it to the process and it made a difference. And then I would argue that in 2024 that that level of that skill it just went through the roof. I mean by then you had Vivek and you had JD Vance and you had Elon Musk and everybody started getting on board but still it was bottom up. We dragged him through the door and I don't think he was expecting to be here but he took the moment. He's real good at reading the room and knowing when a moment is happening. So he was the right pick in my opinion and the golden age is coming on.
And Chuck Todd at the same event where they're trying to figure out what went wrong he was talking about losing the Hispanic vote or at least a decrease in the Hispanic vote and he disclosed that in a 2022 memo that he only recently saw it warned against the Democrats losing the Hispanic vote because Biden-Harris targeted them as a community of color whereas Trump targeted them as a working class. Do you know who could have fixed that for them? Me. Because they act like they'd never met anybody Hispanic before. Have you ever met anybody from the Hispanic community? Do they sit around bitching about race? No no they don't. They want to work. They like their religion, their family and they like America and they want to work. No you can't get the Hispanics with identity politics. They're just not inclined to go in that direction. And I knew that because I have enough contact with them. But if you didn't know that and you said well we'll make them feel like they're some kind of demographic that everybody's against they'll fight back. Didn't work. I could have told them that.
And Chuck Todd also said that whole democracy at risk thing wasn't working and I could have told you that because if you compare these two things from a persuasion perspective all right in ways that we can't quite summarize something about democracy will be decreased because you're like okay uh-huh all right well I'm vaguely worried about that a little bit but it's not really connecting. How does that happen? How does the democracy get stolen exactly? And then Trump says they're sending rapists across the border. Did you hear that story about some victim who was raped by an illegal immigrant? The right number of that is zero. These are not equal. Now even though I rail against using anecdotes for persuasion I do note that it works and the reason I don't use it is because it works and if you do it too well
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I think it's a little bit too much. Yeah if you focus on the anecdotal it ends up feeling like the entire community is somehow painted with the same brush and I resist that. We don't need to do that. Statistics should get to the same place. Rasmussen reports says that 65% of voters, likely voters, say the feds were likely provoked the January 6 Capitol riot. So roughly two-thirds of Americans thi…
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