Trump flip-flops numerous times per day. I am beginning to think that "The Art of the Deal" was also always fake - he is unable to make a deal. Everyone sees this now.
The idea that a chump who bankrupted a casino could outmaneuver the country that invented the term "checkmate" was always profoundly stupid... so of course, Trump's supporters lapped it up like antifreeze.
1: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tony-schwartz-trumps-ghostwrite...
Just because somebody tells us they are not lying does not mean they are not. But some people believe it because it makes them feel great again.
Trump seems to be able to do that well enough in the normal business world. The thing is when it comes to countries its harder to get them to roll over because if a dictator looks too weak its off with their head. If you give a dictator the choice of ruling over an impovrished country or dying in a coup, they are going to choose the former. On top of that its hard to make international coercive deals stick. In the normal business world, you can sue if someone reneges. When it comes to countries, what are you going to do? Whine to the UN? Good luck with that. Countries can stick with deals when it suits them and forget about them when it no longer does. At worse that may not make countries want to make deals in the future, but if it was a coercive deal that doesnt matter much.
Eh it doesn't work any better in the business world really.
His only move is shameless bullying, belligerence, and vexatious lawsuits.
It works on some smaller parties who really don't want or can't afford drawn out disputes, but otherwise it usually backfires.
To me, the interesting part is that people used to believe it in the first place. Anything that I heard of the guy and his agenda 2025 or whatever it was called had some really weird points which America (and for what its worth, the world, who didn't have any say in the American election but is dragged into it as the prices of my gas station rise)
Was it the silos of internet in an ever-polarizing nation that created the perfect conditions for a trump-esque person to take political power?
I should read more American history but Reagan seems like a similar guy but the only difference seems to be the short-term vs long-term consequences in the damage of Reagan's trickle-onomics (note that Trump's damage is pretty irreparable as well)
Now he is still the exact same man, but to them, he is the second coming.
They can't be all total idiots. So what are they? I have never seen a decent deep analysis on why they behave like this. Afaik, they got the worst chances in the existing economy, and decided, as they are hurting anyway, they'll make the other half of the USA also hurt.
Question for every USAian: Someone must have thought deeper about it. Is there a decent book or long form internet article, readable by a more leftist public?