{"id":100273,"date":"2016-07-06T07:50:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=100273"},"modified":"2016-07-06T07:52:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T15:52:43","slug":"the-trump-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=100273","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel McCarthy aka Tory Anarchist tweets<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Almost seems Trump has deliberate strategy to keep the spotlight on himself, not his opponent, good light or bad.<\/p>\n

* If that’s his strategy, it relies on media playing along: grasping a distraction from Hillary’s woes. Trump offers easy alternative target.<\/p>\n

* As a strategy, preempting your opponent’s bad news cycle w\/ bad news of your own seems nuts, unless you think attention is all that counts.<\/p>\n

* That said, Trump used his gaffes to good effect in the primaries. He sucked all media oxygen away from rivals\u2014made them background figures.<\/p>\n

* Trump won the primaries this way: he kept the limelight 100% of the time by being as outrageous as necessary. He became whole focus of race.<\/p>\n

* The more outrageous & surreal the Trump-focused race became, the more ridiculous his opponents looked. He thrived in the climate he created.<\/p>\n

* Trump’s opponents were mostly the usual stuffed shirts & grifters pretending to be serious men. They needed the pretense. Trump blew it away.<\/p>\n

* Now there’s Hillary Clinton. Sober stateswoman? Look at her polices\u2014Iraq, Libya, banks\u2014look at abusing her State Dept communications. C’mon.<\/p>\n

* Trump shattered the myth of GOP respectability with his own complete lack of respectability. Can that work against Hillary? Fun to find out.<\/p>\n

* President Trump would have the press, the Democrats (back in civil libertarian disguise) & much of his own party against him. Strong checks.<\/p>\n

* President Clinton will have a sycophantic party, servile press, opposition at civil war with itself. Illusion of unity hiding deep cracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel McCarthy aka Tory Anarchist tweets: * Almost seems Trump has deliberate strategy to keep the spotlight on himself, not his opponent, good light or bad. * If that’s his strategy, it relies on media playing along: grasping a distraction … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100278,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100273\/revisions\/100278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}