Is Trump Truly Crazy or Just Acting Crazy?

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/17/trump-truly-crazy-just-acting-crazy/

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Jonathan Chait: “If you do assume that Trump is acting rationally, then it is very hard to explain his campaign moves as steps in a considered plan to get elected president, and much easier to explain them as steps toward monetizing his audience through a media empire. This theory would explain why Trump handed control of his campaign to a media mogul (Steve Bannon), why he has needlessly attacked fellow members of his party, and why he has risked demoralizing his own voters by repeatedly calling the election rigged. These are logical decisions if his end goal is to wrest the intense loyalty of a large minority of the country away from other conservative organs and center it around a media brand he can control.”

“On the other hand, it is highly plausible that these moves make no sense at all, that Trump is simply an uncontrollable madman lashing around, and perhaps the gestures toward creating a media empire reflect Kushner’s strategy rather than his own.”



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[EV_Ares]

1. Who knows what it is all about. According to business reports his hotel business is down

dramatically & he is going to change the names of them. They will no longer be called Trump hotels but Scion hotels.

He does have Ailes & Bannon over there working for him so he has people in place to do something like that.

[applegrove]

4. Î worked out the numbers. 37% seems to be the percentage of people who really like Trump.

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37% of voters (people really politically involved - to be conservative in my estimates here) is 52 million people. If they spend on average $100 over their lifetimes on Trump gear, books, network, that is 5.2 Billion dollars for Trump.

[EV_Ares]

6. I would not know but I think your number of 37% sounds pretty much on the money.

Anywhere from 35% to 37% has always seemed to be a hardcore number for the far right of the republican party.

That said, I wouldn't know how many of them would spend money on Trump products.

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. Old Trump hotels aren't changing their name

"Scion" will be used for their new "hip" hotels. They'll be competing with hotels like the W, not the Waldorf.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

2. Steve Bannon - Media Mogul?

[NewJeffCT]

15. That stood out to me as well?

He ran a website... my daughter ran a website when she was 10. Is she a media mogul, too?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I halfway expect him to start telling his supporters NOT to vote

because the election will be rigged so he can't win; and instead they should exercise other remedies, like their "Second Amendment rights" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). I think he's just about that unhinged.

[Turbineguy]

5. He's just

charming his base.

[Hortensis]

7. Personality disorders are not insanity. People like Trump

think and react differently from the norm but are capable of recognizing reality. Actually, for a journalist like Jonathan Chait, this is an appallingly ignorance-promoting way of portraying him. People with cluster B personality disorders know they're different, but mostly they like themselves that way and aren't interested in changing.

Apparently mental health professionals believe that someone in the grip of a narcissistic "rage," (not the same as what we normally think of as rage), is not interested in thinking sensibly, and uncontrollable by others, but that is not the same as being a "madman.'

[lonestarnot]

9. I think he's cra cra

[Hortensis]

13. I think his supporters are cra cra. What's their excuse?

[lonestarnot]

16. All one big dumpster of deplorables.

[Hortensis]

17. Sadly, at this point yes.

On jury duty yesterday and lunched with another person who's considering not voting this year, though. Conservative, but a woman who supports the ACA and knows that Hillary wants to address the plight of caregivers. It seems likely that, while most have committed more strongly to voting for him, some are reluctantly abandoning their hopes that they could support their party this year.

[Divine Discontent]

10. He is socially unfit. A paragon of self indulgence and delusion.

Normally, people like him are shunned by society as intolerable and someone you're warned to avoid on your first day. Donald, however, was funded endlessly by daddy's massive wealth, and we know how millions in cash buys relevance.

He's a gold spoon fed ignoramus paraded around as America's savior from the darkest presidency in history.

- - - Republicans aren't sending their best. They're sending criminals. They're sending rapists - - -

[longship]

11. A distinction without a difference. R&K nt

[Eugene]

12. Trump really is unhinged.

Heaven help anyone who disagrees with his inflated vision of himself.
He has been like this for years. Now the whole world is paying attention.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028236395

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/trump-files-another-woman-insulted-by-trump

Kushner is the rational actor here, but the Trump brand will be too toxic
for him to salvage much of value.

[apnu]

14. Who cares? An asshole is an asshole, no matter if naturally occurring or an act.

[Cha]

19. I say both.. he's still an admitted sexual predator. That wasn't

in his game plan.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. it's very easy to ascribe mental illness/profound personality disorders to ones political opponents

however, in the case of that guy, I think there is DEFINITELY something wrong with his head.

[RobinA]

22. Not An Act

Not that nothing he does is done for effect, but his general way of doing things appears to be stable over time. Plus, it is very consistent in demonstrating a certain mindset. He's the real deal, alright.