Zuckerberg is not only ridiculously successful but touches everyone's life everyday and people may feel an intimacy that doesn't exist.
Without being judgmental just looking at the dynamics he is going to win.
While the former is true, that's not why Trump won.
> Zuckerberg is not only ridiculously successful but touches everyone's life everyday and people may feel an intimacy that doesn't exist.
That same intimacy throws off a significant percentage of the population.
> Without being judgmental just looking at the dynamics he is going to win.
My analysis is that he doesn't have a chance. Assuming he runs as a Democrat, I think it'd be difficult to win the nomination and if he does, he'd get crushed in the general against Trump.
If I had a dime for every reason given for Trump's win, I could dive into a pool of them like Scrooge McDuck.
I think it's certainly a factor which made Trump seem credible as long as you didn't scrutinize his self-made mythology too hard, but it's not primarily why Trump won. If it were that simple, Mitt Romney would have won as well.
From his unscripted words [2], actions [3], and the company he keeps [4] I suspect his vision is some kind of techno-libertarian utopia where anything is legal as long as it's in the TOS - unless it's the bad thing and must be therefore be purged from the internet.
But considering Facebook's weird puritanical streak [5], and their recent refusal to reveal political ad information [6]. I'm left with this quote from Alpha Centauri:
> "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/2/16/14640460/mark-zuckerberg-fa...
[2] http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...
[3] http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/10/mark-zuckerberg-buys-f...
[4] http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-defends-faceb...
[5] https://news.artnet.com/art-world/facebook-censors-caravaggi...
[6] https://www.yahoo.com/news/fire-facebook-refuses-disclose-po...
Those who join us need only give up only half of their humanity - the illogical, ill-tempered, and disordered half, commonly thought of as 'right-brain' functioning. In exchange, the 'left-brain' capacities are increased to undreamed potentials. The tendency of Biologicals to cling instead to their individual personalities can only be attributed to archaic evolutionary tendencies.
--Prime Function Aki Zuckerberg-5, "Convergence"
Zuckerberg, on the other hand, may not be able to spin his negatives into positives quite as handily.
His rallies dwarfed Clinton's.