Trump's Insurgency
Mar 1, 2016 17:10:52 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Mar 1, 2016 17:10:52 GMT -5
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Trump's Insurgency (a must read)
Trump is trouncing the competition. He's doing so well that the prediction systems give him a 81% chance of winning the nomination -- despite the opposition of the entire Republican establishment.
What's most surprising to many pundits and analysts is that Trump has done this without presenting all of the detail plans, voluminous position papers, etc. that we've come to expect over the last couple of decades.
He has simply refused to play by those rules, and he's not paid a price for it.
Trump is able to pull this off because he's not running a political campaign. Instead, he's running an insurgency.
Not only that, it's a very specific type of insurgency. A type of insurgency so effective, it held the US at bay in Iraq for years, drove oil prices to $147 a barrel in 2007, and toppled governments in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Libya.
This means he is playing by very different rules than his competitors. Let me walk you through an example of what I mean by that.
Candidates typically take positions on a range of issues. These issues serve as a means of attracting a coalition of voters energized by these issues. An open source insurgency works differently. It forms around a single idea. In Trump's insurgency, the central idea is seen in a tweet he made on the 29th of February:
It's a simple promise. It says: I'll Represent You and Your Needs as President
Trump's Insurgency (a must read)
Trump is trouncing the competition. He's doing so well that the prediction systems give him a 81% chance of winning the nomination -- despite the opposition of the entire Republican establishment.
What's most surprising to many pundits and analysts is that Trump has done this without presenting all of the detail plans, voluminous position papers, etc. that we've come to expect over the last couple of decades.
He has simply refused to play by those rules, and he's not paid a price for it.
Trump is able to pull this off because he's not running a political campaign. Instead, he's running an insurgency.
Not only that, it's a very specific type of insurgency. A type of insurgency so effective, it held the US at bay in Iraq for years, drove oil prices to $147 a barrel in 2007, and toppled governments in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Libya.
This means he is playing by very different rules than his competitors. Let me walk you through an example of what I mean by that.
Candidates typically take positions on a range of issues. These issues serve as a means of attracting a coalition of voters energized by these issues. An open source insurgency works differently. It forms around a single idea. In Trump's insurgency, the central idea is seen in a tweet he made on the 29th of February:
It's a simple promise. It says: I'll Represent You and Your Needs as President