According to a commenter at Reason:
I saw a great remark (Glenn Reynolds) about Trump that could also apply to the phanatique Trumpenvolk…
It’s hard to get inside the decision loop of a guy who doesn’t know what he’ll do next himself.
That is in fact what they teach in air combat school. Don’t have a plan. Have an objective. Col. John “Forty-Second” Boyd.
So maybe Trump has studied air combat. It wouldn’t surprise me. At all.
Update: 13 May 2016 0638z
I have done an expanded version of this post at HotGas.
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No tells, keep them guessing.
Note that one of the criticisms leveled against him is that he has ambiguous, fluid policies. Which is precisely his strength, given his objective: make America great again.
What hyuuuge numbers of the official commentariat still don’t get is the difference between “Trump” the character he plays, and Donald Trump the savvy business man. It’s an ACT, people.
Wouldn’t surprise me either. What I got out of that is that he’s realist. You do what you CAN. And keep doing what you can.
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m May,
JC and I are old ‘net friends. I gave him a Thank You.
And Thank You!
This sounds familiar.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/08/mccain_and_the_ooda_loop.html
Joseph,
Charlie was right about Palin. It wasn’t enough.
There’s a lot of this, googling something like “john McCain traitor” returns dozens.
In any case, McCain is stupid, corrupt, a complete asshole, and incrementally, if at all, an improvement over Hillary. Hard to believe he was elected from the same state that produced Barry Goldwater. Screw his ooda loop. Was a lousy pilot, anyway.
http://takimag.com/article/judas_mccain_guy_somerset#axzz48JwaceOA
http://www.vdare.com/posts/is-donald-trump-surfacing-the-long-rumored-hatefact-that-john-mccain-was-not-a-hero-but-a-collaborator
Styles change, in politics as anywhere. I don’t see any Lincoln/Douglas debates. People don’t stand for 3 hour speeches. How much of the objection to Trump is purely stylistic? He seems well suited to the present age. Crude, rude and unglued.