Kontextmaschine

9th December 2016

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10 Crucial Decisions That Reshaped America →

This is basically a teaser for a campaign book, where all the below-the-line guys get one last chance to spin and self-mythologize and reveal all the good ideas they didn’t get to use. But in return you get some pretty interesting stuff. Of note:

• Trump was strategically jerkish to Jeb, incl. the “Bush has to like Mexican illegals because of his wife” tweet, because two decade-old debate footage showed he was at his weakest performing “confrontational”
  
• On being hired Corey Lewandowski put Trump’s chances at 5%, Trump put them at 10%.
• This quote on the resonance between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump: “Steve just likes to f–k with people,” a top Trump adviser told me around the time Bannon was hired. “Trump loves to do that too. … Besides, Trump only really listens to rich guys.”

Also, in the ah “editorial” judgement here seems to be a take that seems popular as a folk take but this is the first time I’ve seen credentialed media running it, that Trump won not despite but because of “being Trump”, that beefing with Khan and going on the offensive after the Access Hollywood tape and never apologizing for anything were effectively positives, credibly signaling outsider status.

Tagged: election 2016