It helped Trump, mission accomplished.
was probably impactful on Wisconsonian's move away from Trump in both the midterms and in 2020. I don't know of any polling that connects the two but the foxconn disaster was a frequent topic of conversation here.
Basically what they do is build themselves up through something like a social capital pyramid scheme. This eventually collapses when there are no greater fools and when all their promises fail, but the good ones already have the next grift in progress before the first one collapses.
Trump is truly one of the greats at this. Not only does he do this very well but he builds the next grift off the previous one. He's IMHO the world's premier expert in "failing up."
Great at marketing, terrible at execution.
Which I always find a bit surprising because you'd think people here would be able to see through the hucksterism.
Self-righteously holding your nose and voting for a dumpster fire is still voting for a dumpster fire.
...for the 7th time?
*And perhaps getting immunity.
You won't license a brand that already scrunes >50% of potential customers in the US is and way more in the western world ( but the contacts seem to be solid, so it's very expensive)
Look at all the hotels trying to get off the Trump brand. And all the businesses that associated themselves with Trump during his presidency.
Jeez. In all of my marketing efforts I would never immediately out of the gate alienate 60-65% of my potential customer base. And the Trump brand did nearly that from day 1.
Consider instead something along the lines of "it achieved the desired political benefit for certain politicians". By keeping it abstract, even if it can be deduced who you're referring to, the discussion can remain less adversarial.