{"id":76789,"date":"2016-09-20T03:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T03:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/20\/grand-persuadeur-etamerican-gorbatchev\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T03:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T03:41:43","slug":"grand-persuadeur-etamerican-gorbatchev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/20\/grand-persuadeur-etamerican-gorbatchev\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGrand Persuadeur\u201d et\u00a0American<\/em> Gorbatchev ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00ab\u00a0Grand Persuadeur\u00a0\u00bb et American<\/em> Gorbatchev ?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Nous avons jug\u00e9 int\u00e9ressant de publier dans un m\u00eame ensemble deux textes qui concernent indirectement et directement Donald Trump apr\u00e8s l'\u00a0\u00bbincident de sant\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb d’Hillary Clinton, alors que la campagne du candidat r\u00e9publicain est en train d’acqu\u00e9rir un rythme absolument remarquable<\/strong> (Daily Caller<\/em> le 17 septembre<\/a> : « Trump’s Polling \u00ab\u00a0Surge\u00a0\u00bb Is Turning Into A \u00ab\u00a0Wave\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> », Breitbart.News<\/em> le 19 septembre<\/a>) et que l’avantage quasi-\u00ab\u00a0institutionnel\u00a0\u00bb de la candidate d\u00e9mocrate s’effrite \u00e0 une vitesse \u00e9galement remarquable. D’autre part, les \u00e9v\u00e9nements des deux derniers jours \u00e0 tr\u00e8s fort retentissement aux USA (attentats islamistes revendiqu\u00e9s par Daesh<\/em>\/EI) vont \u00e9videmment dans son sens<\/a>, lui, Donald Trump, qui plaide depuis le premier jour pour une d\u00e9fense renforc\u00e9e aux USA face \u00e0 ces attaques et critique aussi bien Obama que Clinton pour leur laxisme syst\u00e9matique face \u00e0 cette menace.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

(Dans cette situation, la d\u00e9fense d’Hillary Clinton est aussi path\u00e9tique que le personnage qu’elle est devenue<\/strong> : apr\u00e8s avoir tent\u00e9 dans un premier temps, avec l’aide grossi\u00e8re de CNN<\/a>, d’\u00e9carter l’interpr\u00e9tation \u00e9vidente que ces attaques \u00e9taient des attentats, elle en est venue \u00e0 faire en porter la responsabilit\u00e9 \u00e0 Trump parce que son discours exacerberait les projets d’attentats islamistes ; sugg\u00e9rerait-elle bient\u00f4t, delon la logique habituelle de l’inversion qui lui est coutumi\u00e8re, que Trump est le cr\u00e9ateur et l’alli\u00e9 de Daesh<\/em>, tandis que l’USAF, tout de m\u00eame th\u00e9oriquement sous le commandement-en-chef d’Obama, attaque \u00e0 Deir ez-Zor<\/a> l’arm\u00e9e syrienne pour le compte<\/a> de Daesh<\/em> en Syrie ?)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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• Le premier texte est d’un auteur russe, Ruslan Ostachko, dans sa version traduite en anglais pour FortRuss.com<\/em> le 13 septembre<\/a>. Écrit juste apr\u00e8s l'\u00a0\u00bbaccident de sant\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb identifi\u00e9 comme une pneumonie d’Hillary Clinton lors de la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie sacr\u00e9e \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire de 9\/11, le texte se r\u00e9f\u00e8re aux bruits et hypoth\u00e8ses qui ontsuivi selon lesquels Hillary pourrait\/devrait \u00eatre remplac\u00e9e ; tout l’argument d’Ostachko devient alors : surtout, surtout, qu’elle ne quitte pas la course, qu’elle dure au moins jusqu’au bout, c’est la meilleure chose qui puisse survenir, notamment \u00ab\u00a0pour la Russie\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>. Hillary Clinton est tellement arch\u00e9typique du r\u00e9gime en place, de sa corruption jusqu’\u00e0 l’os, de sa robotisation de communication, de son id\u00e9ologisation perverse, qu’elle constitue l’adversaire id\u00e9ale de Trump, le repoussoir parfait. Plus que tout, elle est tellement le produit et le symbole du r\u00e9gime en place que les pr\u00e9sidentielles US commencent \u00e0 ressembler, avec elle contre Trump, comme la derni\u00e8re course essouffl\u00e9e, au bord de l’effondrement, du r\u00e9gime contre l’outsider<\/em>. Si en fran\u00e7ais, le mot est utilis\u00e9 pour indiquer celui qui a peu de chances de gagner, en anglais le sens est bien \u00ab\u00a0celui qui vient du dehors\u00a0\u00bb sans implication n\u00e9cessaire sur ses chances de gagner : donc, Trump comme candidat venu d'\u00a0\u00bben-dehors du r\u00e9gime\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>, et d’autant plus, et toujours plus, qu’il aura Hillary, l’arch\u00e9type du r\u00e9gime contre lui ; et Ostachko termine par l’hypoth\u00e8se nucl\u00e9aire : « La crise de confiance de l’autorit\u00e9, des dirigeants \u00e2g\u00e9s avec de s\u00e9rieux probl\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9, et une population qui \u00e9coute de plus en plus activement \u00ab\u00a0la voix de l’ennemi\u00a0\u00bb, – cela ne vous rappelle pas quelque chose ? Les USA ressemblent de plus en plus \u00e0 l’ancienne URSS sur sa fin.<\/strong> Qui sait, peut-\u00eatre le futur pr\u00e9sident sera-t-il un ‘American Gorbatchev’ ?<\/em> ».<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

• Le second texte (du 16 septembre<\/a>) est compl\u00e8tement centr\u00e9 sur Trump, et sur la Grande Transformation qui s’est op\u00e9r\u00e9e chez lui en août-septembre<\/strong>, selon l’auteur de la bande dessin\u00e9e Dilbert<\/a><\/em>, Scott Adams, qui tient chronique sur la campagne USA-2016 sur son site Dilbert.com<\/em>. Nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9 Adams, qui est politiquement aussi peu partisan de Clinton que de Trump, et qui examine la campagne en technicien de la communication et en satiriste \u00e0 l’image de la s\u00e9rie Dilbert<\/em>, plut\u00f4t que d’un point de vue politique. Il n’emp\u00eache bien entendu que ses remarques d\u00e9gagent un sens politique, surtout lorsqu’il s’agit de d\u00e9crire un affrontement aussi exceptionnel d’intensit\u00e9 et de puissance, entre deux personnalit\u00e9s aussi diff\u00e9rentes, selon des lignes politiques aussi antagonistes. Ce qu’affirme Adams, c’est qu’un complet renversement s’est op\u00e9r\u00e9 sous nos yeux, Trump ayant acquis toutes les vertus politiques qu’on pr\u00eatait \u00e0 Clinton, tandis que Clinton les perdait les unes apr\u00e8s les autres<\/strong>. (« Il semble que le caract\u00e8re de base de Trump est \u00ab\u00a0la volont\u00e9 de gagner\u00a0\u00bb. Il devait \u00eatre grossier et furieux dans les primaires, il l’a \u00e9t\u00e9. Il doit \u00ab\u00a0faire pr\u00e9sidentiel\u00a0\u00bb dans cette phase de l’\u00e9lection, et il le fait. Pendant ce temps, Clinton s’est r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9e elle-m\u00eame fragile, charg\u00e9e de m\u00e9dicaments, et probablement dissimulatrice \u00e0 propos de sa sant\u00e9. On a \u00e9galement entendu des rumeurs selon lesquelles elle boit beaucoup et qu’elle est d’un caract\u00e8re emport\u00e9. Soudain, Clinton apparaît comme la personnalit\u00e9 instable dans cette comp\u00e9tition \u00e9lectorale. Qui voudriez-vous qui ait le doigt sur le bouton de l’arme nucl\u00e9aire ? Vous pensiez probablement que Trump \u00e9tait le bigot dans cet affrontement, jusqu’\u00e0 ce que Clinton surnomme la moiti\u00e9 des \u00e9lecteurs de Trump \u00ab\u00a0un panier de d\u00e9plorables\u00a0\u00bb <\/em>… »)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Adams explique la personnalit\u00e9 de Trump comme celle d’un caract\u00e8re qui nourrit sa force aux critiques qui sont lanc\u00e9es contre lui (Adams lui-m\u00eame est de cette sorte) : au plus il est attaqu\u00e9, au plus il a de force. A cet \u00e9gard, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 g\u00e2t\u00e9 avec le Syst\u00e8me, la presse-Syst\u00e8me, Hillary… D’autre part, cette force il l’utilise dans l’art de la persuasion : c’est un th\u00e8me qu’Adams a d\u00e9j\u00e0 largement d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 \u00e0 propos de Trump, avec cette persuasion bas\u00e9e notamment sur l’ing\u00e9nuit\u00e9 qui est une \u00ab\u00a0franchise pleine de simplicit\u00e9 et parfois de na\u00efvet\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb. L’ensemble fait un personnage qui, une fois introduit dans les rouages de la machine du Syst\u00e8me, est impr\u00e9visible puisqu’il se nourrit des coups de la guerre de communication et utilise sa force par l’interm\u00e9diaire de sa franchise brutale, c’est-\u00e0-dire des attitudes absolument \u00e9trang\u00e8res au Syst\u00e8me<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Les diverses observations de ces deux textes nous permettent d’observer que le champ prospectif de cette \u00e9lection s’est brutalement \u00e9largi, et qu’il s’est \u00e9largi \u00e0 l’avantage de Trump, sans que Trump ne l’ait c\u00e9d\u00e9 en quoi que ce soit au Syst\u00e8me, dans tous les cas au niveau de la communication<\/strong>. Ainsi s’imposent des interrogations de plus en plus pressantes et de plus en plus essentielles, conduisant \u00e0 admettre la possibilit\u00e9 qu’un \u00e9v\u00e9nement colossal est en cours de fabrication<\/strong>. Finalement, ce qui nous paraît dominer ces divers constats qui nous sont offerts, c’est bien celui de l’extraordinaire caducit\u00e9 voire la d\u00e9cr\u00e9pitude, l’obsolescence s\u00e9nile du Syst\u00e8me, comme l’observe Ostachko : comme le r\u00e9gime sovi\u00e9tique n’\u00e9tait plus capable de nous offrir avant Gorbatchev qu’un Tchernenko g\u00e2teux, s’\u00e9touffant dans une toux cr\u00e9pusculaire, le r\u00e9gime am\u00e9ricaniste nous offre une Clinton qui se r\u00e9v\u00e8le telle qu’en elle-m\u00eame, vieilie et de sant\u00e9 fragile, comme image de la corruption et de la g\u00e9rontocratie d\u00e9cr\u00e9pite<\/strong>. Ce sont ces conditions extraordinaires de la situation du r\u00e9gime qui permettent de comprendre comment un Trump a pu p\u00e9n\u00e9trer dans le Syst\u00e8me comme il l’a fait. A cette lumi\u00e8re, il semble de moins en moins probable qu’ils puissent jamais prendre une mesure d\u00e9cisive contre lui (l’assassinat<\/a> \u00e9videmment, tous les gangsters pensent de la m\u00eame fa\u00e7on).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A ces observations que nous voyons se d\u00e9velopper et se renforcer depuis un certain temps s’ajoute un \u00e9l\u00e9ment conjoncturel et fonctionnel qu’on observe de plus en plus comme un facteur majeur de la situation, qui est le processus de d\u00e9structuration et, d\u00e9sormais, de dissolution dans cette fin de pr\u00e9sidence Obama. L’actuel pr\u00e9sident US se r\u00e9v\u00e8le dans les pires de ses travers, qui se r\u00e9sument par une arrogance, une indiff\u00e9rence et une irresponsabilit\u00e9 toutes trois assez peu ordinaires, par rapport \u00e0 l’exercice du pouvoir et \u00e0 la position de sa fonction. On n’ob\u00e9it plus gu\u00e8re \u00e0 Obama, qui est enferm\u00e9 dans un cycle entertainment<\/em>-golf-lev\u00e9e d’argent faisant de lui un personnage en passe de marginalisation<\/a> dans la r\u00e9partition des politiques, sans plus gu\u00e8re d’effet r\u00e9el sur la politique US ainsi laiss\u00e9e \u00e0 elle-m\u00eame. Ce qui est plus grave est que cette attitude entraîne une \u00e9rosion rapide, une sorte de d\u00e9construction (d\u00e9structuration puis dissolution) de la fonction pr\u00e9sidentielle qui contribue \u00e0 un affaiblissement suppl\u00e9mentaire du pouvoir am\u00e9ricaniste<\/strong>. (En ce sens, par effets d’enchaînement, \u00ab\u00a0d’inversion de l’inversion\u00a0\u00bb si l’on veut, de d\u00e9structuration d’une structure dont l’activit\u00e9 tend \u00e0 la d\u00e9structuration du reste, le d\u00e9constructeur Obama assure involontairement, et tr\u00e8s ironiquement, une action objectivement \u00e0 finalit\u00e9 antiSyst\u00e8me !) Cette situation va encore plus compliquer la t\u00e2che du vainqueur des \u00e9lections du 8 novembre, avec par ailleurs comme effet possible de le pousser vers des positions plus radicales si c’est le seul moyen de restaurer l’autorit\u00e9 de la pr\u00e9sidence pour \u00e9ventuellement imposer un programme et une politique nouvelles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

R\u00e9p\u00e9tons-le : cette situation ouvre notablement le champ prospectif sans rien nous r\u00e9v\u00e9ler de l’issue de la chose, et m\u00eame en compliquant la t\u00e2che d’envisager ce que pourrait \u00eatre l’issue de la chose<\/strong>. Elle concr\u00e9tise un peu plus la possibilit\u00e9 d’une victoire de Trump, mais aussi, par cons\u00e9quent, les formidables probl\u00e8mes et les troubles potentiels, notamment institutionnels, qu’une telle victoire susciterait. Il nous semble difficile, devant l’ampleur de l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement possible, de nous en tenir comme on serait tent\u00e9 de le faire \u00e0 de simples hypoth\u00e8ses sur la politique de Trump. Au reste, ces hypoth\u00e8ses sont tr\u00e8s complexes, dans la mesure où ce qu’on nommerait \u00ab\u00a0la politique de Trump\u00a0\u00bb reste assez confuse dans son aspect concret et d\u00e9taill\u00e9 ; cette complexit\u00e9 pousse d’ailleurs \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer prioritairement ce qu’on per\u00e7oit de Trump au niveau de la communication, dans les axes fondamentaux de ses conceptions par rapport \u00e0 la politique suivie par Washington et accord\u00e9e au bloc-BAO d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale ; et justement, cette perception fait de Trump un adversaire de la globalisation d’une fa\u00e7on g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, avec les effets \u00ab\u00a0en cascade\u00a0\u00bb que cela suppose vers une politique d’America First<\/em>, c’est-\u00e0-dire une option politique tout simplement inacceptable pour le Syst\u00e8me en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, et devant semer le trouble, non seulement aux USA, mais dans les pays alli\u00e9s du bloc-BAO, notamment europ\u00e9ens<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

C’est dans ce cas que la remarque d’Ostachko (« Les USA ressemblent de plus en plus \u00e0 l’ancienne URSS sur sa fin. Qui sait, peut-\u00eatre le futur pr\u00e9sident sera-t-il un ‘American Gorbatchev’ ?<\/em> ») prend tout son sens. On sait bien que l'\u00a0\u00bboption Gorbatchev\u00a0\u00bb a un sens bien pr\u00e9cis, qui est celui d’une bataille terrible entre le pouvoir politique, – et souvent un homme seul avec son \u00e9quipe autour de lui, comme fut souvent Gorbatchev, – et les forces diverses des bureaucraties concern\u00e9es, des centres de pouvoir divers, centres d’influence et de subversion, sans compter la presse-Syst\u00e8me directement impliqu\u00e9e comme on le constate chaque jour contre Trump, etc. Dans ce cas des USA et \u00e0 la diff\u00e9rence de l’URSS où Gorbatchev proc\u00e9da d’abord avec prudence, on peut dire que l'\u00a0\u00bboption Gorbatchev\u00a0\u00bb pour Trump implique directement et aussit\u00f4t une bataille frontale ouverte avec le Syst\u00e8me<\/strong> ; dans le climat actuel, dans la tension exacerb\u00e9e et la polarisation des positions, une telle hypoth\u00e8se implique que l’enjeu n’est plus \u00ab\u00a0une politique\u00a0\u00bb mais un syst\u00e8me dans son entier. (Dans le cas de cette hypoth\u00e8se d’une bataille imm\u00e9diate et frontale, le d\u00e9tail de la \u00ab\u00a0politique\u00a0\u00bb de Trump est un point assez secondaire.) La seule chose qu’on puisse dire \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard \u00e0 partir de l’enseignement de la campagne jusqu’ici, et toujours dans l’hypoth\u00e8se de la victoire de Trump, c’est que le personnage lui-m\u00eame pr\u00e9sente suffisamment de traits de caract\u00e8re inhabituels pour envisager chez lui des capacit\u00e9s in\u00e9dites de combat, et pour achever ainsi de transformer en \u00e9nigme toute hypoth\u00e8se sur la p\u00e9riode \u00e0 venir<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Voici donc les deux textes s’enchaînant, celui de Ruslan Ostachko, dans sa version traduite en anglais pour FortRuss.com<\/em> le 13 septembre<\/a> ; celui de Scott Adams, de son site Dilbert.com<\/em>, du 16 septembre<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Beatable Clinton dropping Race is bad for Russia<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

The latest incident surrounding the health of the Democratic Party’s candidate for US President has caused quite a stir in both American and Russian media.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

After Hillary Clinton was forced to prematurely leave the mourning ceremony dedicated to the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, networks were filled with videos depicting her security guards literally carrying her into her car.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Hiding and ignoring her health problems became practically impossible. As Bloomberg accurately writes, Clinton’s headquarters has turned out simply unprepared for such a situation and, even if it couldn’t have been prevented, they could have foreseen such an incident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Discussing the health of this or that politician is a slippery subject, and I really do not want to sink to the level of American media, which have long since entertained the seamy quasi-medical hysteria which has even been aimed at discrediting the Russian president. Even despite the fact that I have facts and evidence with which to attack Clinton, I’d rather not do so. I’m not one for working by Anglo-Saxon journalist standards, and this is probably for the best.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What is more important is what Hillary Clinton’s alleged pneumonia or stroke puts into question: what if the Democratic Party will have to replace her? Rumors appeared in the Western press just hours after Clinton’s fainting that an emergency meeting of the Democratic Party leadership is to be held tonight.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Is a possible replacement for Clinton beneficial for Russia? My answer is an unequivocal and firm \u00ab\u00a0no.\u00a0\u00bb Such would not be in our favor, and here’s why.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton is in fact a sort of great success for us. She is simply an astronomical anti-rating, and as a person she is the perfect target for justified information attacks targeting her corruption schemes, her receiving money from Saudi Arabia, her private servers containing secret information, and so on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What needs to be understood is that her bestial Russophobia is not a personal opinion or personal glitch, but the position of the part of the American political elite whom she represents.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Any candidate who would replace Clinton in the presidential race for the Democrats would be just as ardent of a Russophobe but, most likely, would not have nearly the number of skeletons in their closet or such a high disapproval rating.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Le’s take a concrete example: Tim Kane. He is the most likely candidate to replace Clinton seeing as how she has already chosen him as her potential vice president. It is likely that none other than his candidacy will be discussed at today’s emergency Democratic Party meeting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Senator Tim Kane is a Democrat, but is famous for having always supported the Republican John McCain on key foreign policy issues. Yes, that McCain. In Kane’s fresh statements on foreign policy, we can see calls for imposing a no-fly zone over all of Syria, for example. Of course, this would be done without the agreement of Moscow or, what’s more, Damascus.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As for the icing on the cake that can help explain much of the behavior and career of this politician, we can note that he supports same-sex marriage and the right for same-sex couples to adopt children, even though he considers himself Catholic. How all of this coexists in a single head is decisively unclear, but it is absolutely clear that Hillary Clinton chose a worthy partner for herself who always wholeheartedly supports the start of a real world war.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tim Kane is a kind of \u00ab\u00a0Hillary in pants,\u00a0\u00bb only more vigorous and not so low in the ratings. Based on this, I believe that we need to wish Hillary Clinton the courage and perseverance to literally sink her teeth into the right to run for election. Let her frighten voters with her coughing and outrageous statements. Things will only get better.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lastly, I do not know how the elections in the US will end, but I have a feeling that I can’t help but share with you. The crisis of confidence in authorities, aging rulers with serious health problems, and a population which actively listens to \u00ab\u00a0the voice of the enemy\u00a0\u00bb – does this not remind you all of something?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The US is increasing coming to resemble the late USSR. Who knows, maybe the future president will be an American Gorbachev?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ruslan Ostachko<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n

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When Reality Turned Inside Out<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Do you remember way – way – way<\/em> – back in July, when the public thought Trump was the candidate they couldn’t trust with the nuclear arsenal? That was before we realized he could moderate his personality on command, as he is doing now. We’re about to enter our fifth consecutive week of Trump doing more outreach than outrage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It turns out that Trump’s base personality is \u00ab\u00a0winning.\u00a0\u00bb Everything else he does is designed to get that result. He needed to be loud and outrageous in the primaries, so he was. He needs to be presidential in this phase of the election cycle, so he is. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has revealed herself to be frail, medicated, and probably duplicitous about her health. We also hear reports that she’s a drinker with a bad temper. Suddenly, Clinton looks like the unstable personality in this race. Who do you want controlling the nuclear arsenal now?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You probably thought Trump was the bigot in this contest, until Clinton called half of Trump’s supporters a \u00ab\u00a0basket of deplorables.\u00a0\u00bb That’s the point at which observers started to see a pattern. Trump has been consistently supportive of American citizens of all types – with the exception of the press and his political opponents. The main targets of Trump’s rhetoric are the nations that compete against us. In stark contrast, Clinton turned her hate on American citizens. That’s the real<\/em> kind of hate. Trump is more about keeping America safe and competing effectively in the world. That is literally the job of president.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Trump was once the candidate that the LGBTQ community found easy to hate. Then it turned out that Trump is the loudest voice for protecting America against the anti-gay ideology that Clinton would increase in this country via immigration. At the GOP convention, Republicans stood and applauded Trump’s full-throated support of the LGBTQ community. While Clinton was talking<\/em> about a better society, Trump was transforming the Republican Party into one. (Yes, I know there is more to do.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You might remember a few months ago when Clinton had lots of policy details and Trump had few. Clinton still holds the lead in the number of bullet-points-per-policy, but while she rests, Trump has been rolling out policy details on one topic after another. Perception-wise<\/em><\/strong>, the optics of \u00ab\u00a0who has policy details\u00a0\u00bb has flipped. (Reality isn’t important in this context.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Do you remember over a year ago, when Trump first entered the race? Social media relentlessly insulted his physical appearance. They mocked his orange hair and his orange skin. They called him a clown. They called him a Cheeto. It was brutal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But over time, Trump’s haircut improved. He softened the color to something more blonde than orange And his fake tan and TV makeup improved too. Today, if you ask a voter to name the candidate for president who \u00ab\u00a0looks bad,\u00a0\u00bb the answer would probably be Clinton, primarily because of her recent health issues. In our minds, Clinton went from being a stylish and energetic personality to a hospice patient dressed like a North Korean dictator at a rave.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Not long ago, you would have said Clinton was the strongest candidate for protecting citizens who need the help of social programs. Then Trump unveiled his plan for childcare and senior care. You can debate the details, and the cost, but nearly everyone recognized the idea as a critical need for working class people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In other words, the world is turning inside-out, right in front of our eyes. I summarized this surprising reversal in the most popular tweet I have ever created. (@ScottAdamsSays,12 September, 2016 : \u00ab\u00a0Our next president will be offensive, rich, divisive, bigot with a bad haircut or Donald Trump<\/em>.\u00a0\u00bb)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

That’s how a Master Persuader does it. A year ago, I told you that Trump was bringing a flamethrower to a stick fight. His talent for persuasion is so strong that he has effectively flipped the script and rewired the brains of the people watching this show.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But I’ll bet you still think Trump is \u00ab\u00a0thin-skinned,\u00a0\u00bb primarily because Clinton’s team has done a great job of branding him that way. The label sticks because Trump has a pattern of going on offense whenever he is attacked. But let me give you another framework to see this same set of facts. Specifically, I’m going to tell you how Master Persuaders convert embarrassment into energy. It’s a learned skill.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I often talk about the benefits I got from taking the Dale Carnegie course. One of the skills you learn in that class is how to convert your anxiousness about public speaking into excitement and positive energy. I personally observed the Dale Carnegie course turning a few dozen introverts into people who were enthusiastic about speaking in front of a crowd. It was astonishing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Part of the Dale Carnegie process involved each student doing something embarrassing in front of the class just to get used to the feeling, and to know you could survive it. It is one of the best skills you can learn because our egos tend to hold us back. We fear embarrassment so we don’t risk it. That limits our potential.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Now think back to 2011, at the Correspondent’s Dinner, in which President Obama mocked Donald Trump<\/a> in front of the world – while Trump sat in the audience, stone-faced. The popular reporting was that Trump was humiliated by the event. But Master Persuaders don’t process humiliation the same way as others. They convert it to energy, the same way Dale Carnegie students learn to convert anxiousness to excitement. It’s a learned skill. And it is literally the opposite of having a thin skin. It only looks<\/em><\/strong> the same because of confirmation bias.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

How do I know Trump has mastered the skill of converting humiliation into energy? The signs are all there. For example…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Trump has entered one high-risk business after another, guaranteeing that he would experience a large number of setbacks, failures, and humiliations. People don’t run toward<\/em><\/strong> humiliation unless they know they can convert that negative energy to fuel. When you see someone succeed across multiple unrelated fields, that’s often a sign of a Master Persuader who feeds on both<\/em><\/strong> success and failure. You are watching Trump do exactly that, right in front of your eyes. He has converted every \u00ab\u00a0gaffe\u00a0\u00bb into news coverage. He eats bad news and converts it into fuel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Many of you have watched me do the same thing. You’ve watched as I jumped fields from corporate America to cartooning. Then I became an author of business-related books. I opened two restaurants that didn’t work out. I tried lots of stuff that failed miserably. Now I’m talking about the presidential election. What do all of those things have in common?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I risked public humiliation in each case. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And in each case, lots of people told me \u00ab\u00a0Keep your day job.\u00a0\u00bb On a typical day, dozens of strangers insult my body, my personality, my brain, my integrity, and lots more. Like Trump, I consume it as fuel. And it is a learned skill.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You might have noticed that both Trump and I are quick to attack anyone who attacks us. Observers tell me I shouldn’t do that, because it makes me appear thin-skinned. Observers tell Trump the same thing. But observers are missing one important thing: We use the critics to refuel<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If you were an alien from another planet, and you observed a lion killing a gazelle, you might think that lion was angry at its prey. You might think the lion was insulted that the gazelle was using its watering hole. What did the gazelle do to deserve that treatment? Is the lion being thin-skinned?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Trust me when I tell you that sometimes the lion is just eating.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Scott Adams<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00ab\u00a0Grand Persuadeur\u00a0\u00bb et American Gorbatchev ? Nous avons jug\u00e9 int\u00e9ressant de publier dans un m\u00eame ensemble deux textes qui concernent indirectement et directement Donald Trump apr\u00e8s l’\u00a0\u00bbincident de sant\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb d’Hillary Clinton, alors que la campagne du candidat r\u00e9publicain est en train d’acqu\u00e9rir un rythme absolument remarquable (Daily Caller le 17 septembre : « Trump’s Polling… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11389,3612,4698,6120,934,7258,3483,3278,17773,6894,7147,2639,963,12538],"class_list":["post-76789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ouverture-libre","tag-adams","tag-american","tag-attentats","tag-campagne","tag-clinton","tag-donald","tag-gorbatchev","tag-hillary","tag-ostachko","tag-rythme","tag-scott","tag-trump","tag-urss","tag-usa-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}