https://youtu.be/HGb_8G_7TNs?t=1389
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I have a hypothesis of why Trump doesn't look scary to me and doesn't look scary to most of you who are watching this probably or you wouldn't be here um but does look genuinely scary to Democrats.
Yesterday I was taking a long walk and it just sort of hit me and here's what it is.
If you did not understand persuasion and the techniques of persuasion you would Define everything he's doing as narcissism and something evil and I thought holy cow is that all it is?
That if you don't know how persuasion works you think that the show--because he's always putting on a show--you think that the show is some like Evil dark thing because you wouldn't have anything to understand it.
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So let me let me give you uh an example. When Trump tells you that he's you know the greatest at something if you saw, if you believe that that was just him being an ordinary person telling you something he thought was factually true, you'd say to yourself um what kind of a narcissist are you right?
If your only filter was that it's an ordinary person talking and they said great things about themselves you say narcissist.
But if you understood persuasion and you knew that Trump is always in always giving a show it's literally he's putting on a show.
Once you understand it that way everything he does makes sense completely differently.
It's just part of the show to say that he can do everything and he's better at everything. And when he does things like you know have his doctor say that he's the healthiest human who ever lived or his crowd size is the size of Montana whatever he says, when I hear those things I just smile. Oh there he is he's he's playing a role.
He's putting on a show and his show is directionally correct almost every time. I mean I can't think of an an exception. Does he pass the fact check?
No. No, cuz he's not in fact check mode. He's in show mode. When you're putting on a show you're a little fast and loose with the facts. You might exaggerate things you might leave something out. You might leave out some context.
It's politics. A show.
So when Trump is putting on the show if you understand it as a show and you understand that what he's persuading toward is just directionally, you know, not in the detail. It's more of a directional thing.
Then you're fine with it and he doesn't look like a narcissist. He looks like a good showman and and he's in on his own joke when he makes fun of his own haircut and says things like he's more attractive than KL Harris or things like that.
If you didn't know anything about persuasion and you didn't know he was trying to put on a show you'd say oh my God what's wrong with that guy he looks dangerously narcissistic.
So I think the the way the Democrat leaders and persuaders get away with the the character attacks is that their base doesn't understand and that persuasion is happening and that it's a show.
Once you do you just enjoy the show and I think that's where most of you are.
