{"id":107959,"date":"2016-09-27T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107959"},"modified":"2016-09-27T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:25:16","slug":"trumps-african-american-reframing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107959","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s African-American Reframing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Adams writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So Trump flipped the frame. He said life in the big cities is worse-than-ever for African-Americans, thereby forcing his opponents and the fact-checkers to explain in detail how much better things have gotten since slavery. And the civil rights movement. And on and on. That changes your perspective. Now you see 2016 as the best year \u2013 probably ever \u2013 for African-Americans, albeit with plenty of work left to do. And that\u2019s the sort of reframing that diffuses racial tension. I think it helped.<\/p>\n

But it gets better.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s absurd claim that things are worse-than-ever isn\u2019t true in a factual sense. But it is emotionally compatible with the feelings of African-Americans who feel victimized by police and the system in general. This is one of those cases where being totally wrong is the most sensible approach. Emotions matter in the real world because they drive behavior. Facts, not so much.<\/p>\n

Trump doesn\u2019t ignore facts because he is dumb. He does it because facts don\u2019t matter. Every trained persuader knows that.<\/p>\n

In the 2D world, where people think that facts and reason matter, Trump\u2019s claim that life is worse than ever for African-Americans is an absurd lie. But in the third-dimension of persuasion \u2013 where Trump operates \u2013 it was brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Adams writes: So Trump flipped the frame. He said life in the big cities is worse-than-ever for African-Americans, thereby forcing his opponents and the fact-checkers to explain in detail how much better things have gotten since slavery. And the … 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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t