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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal
And Trump's mouth is not helping.
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Yes - his mouth. Whwther his mind ticks the same way, whether he really is that dumb a Trump as he posed as - to me that is something very different. Why did he got this far in the race because he was unerestimated all the time.
Me, I think not one moment that he is the stupid idiot many people paint him as. Opportunistic, unscrupulous, provoking, egocentric, and talking to the plebs in the language that the plebs understands (Clinton sucks at that) - all this: yes. But stupid?
He is not stupid. At best the people voting for him are stupid: those who took his talking for real. That is like taking all miracles and wonders in the Bible literally.
This does not mean that one should not be prepared for him adding quite a lot of changes. Since he is no career politician and is not anchored in the party system as well, he will do things from a very different and thus: unused perspective, last but not least that perspective will have HIM at the centre of its gravity. Possible that we will need time to get used to that, and that we will not like the consequencesespecailly in Europe, when he starts to cost us more money and own engagement.
But again: I really doubt that Trump is stupid.
By this I wish not to say that I suddenly like him. I don't. Its just that I take reality as what it is, and not as an idea about how I would prefer it to be,
if only... The reality from January 20th on, is him. And nobody else.
And from late summer on we can start to assess what he actually is deciding and doing for real.