On: American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth

[lorenzhs]

I don't think the GP meant to say that Trump isn't smart. It's that the policies he suggests are meant to appeal to feelings, not rationality. They are thus more likely to attract voters who don't think through what those policies could mean, were they to be implemented. (Not saying those are all of his voters, there are other motivations as well. Also not from the US.)

[internaut → lorenzhs]

To play devil's advocate:

I think Trump supporters would say that there are simple truth about the universe that faux sophisticated liberals don't grasp or weight equally with less important things.

I believe that orthodoxies of the past half century have been a failure. If average wealth has not risen for decades, a fact, then there is something wrong with your model. Notice the slogan is not Make America Great. It is Make America Great Again.

That admission of failure is fascinating and completely ignored.

[kofejnik → lorenzhs]

To the contrary, I find many of his proposals very rational, and this rationality seems to hurt many people's feelings