tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935388960172685926.post3604594882985381224..comments2023-10-01T11:00:49.093+01:00Comments on fergusthepoet: A former English Teacher’s Take on (teacher) Trump v (teacher) ClintonFergushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16269165850785673480noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935388960172685926.post-63804236932858909822018-02-05T18:37:22.261+00:002018-02-05T18:37:22.261+00:00Thanks, Gary. Thanks, Gary. Fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269165850785673480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3935388960172685926.post-19952120865930775812016-11-09T09:40:06.593+00:002016-11-09T09:40:06.593+00:00A good piece.
It is tempting, but too easy, to bl...A good piece.<br /><br />It is tempting, but too easy, to blame a dumb electorate. Trump’s sound bites – “Drain that swamp”, “Lock her up”, “Build that wall” , resonated. Clinton’s didn’t.<br /><br />Clinton’s greatest strength, her experience of government and power, was her greatest weakness to an electorate disenchanted with the Establishment. Trumps greatest weakness, his inexperience and disdain for culture was his greatest strength to an electorate who had no track record to assess, and whose barrack room philosophy was an antidote to perceived failed contemporary mores.<br /><br />Trump, like Johnson and Farage, understand the Mob. They have the rhetoric to inflame and incite. Beyond that they offer little.<br /><br />America will now to bear witness to a paradox. The inexperienced Trump, faced with the largest bureaucracy in the world, is more likely to be swallowed up by the Establishment Administration than Clinton would have been.<br />Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00724193158344325410noreply@blogger.com