Trump is definitely the same person. It would be disturbing if he experienced a major personality change at his age. But he’s running a completely different campaign. If people were capable of leaving partisanship aside, Trump’s campaign of 2024 would be an object lesson in taking stock of your mistakes and correcting course. Everybody is too emotional and I’m not even sure it makes sense to post because once you say “Trump”, all reason flies out of the window.
The question was asked, though, so I’ll answer.
The Trump campaign of 2020 made three catastrophic mistakes:
- No legal challenges were presented before the election to prevent the shenanigans with ballot harvesting.
- The fantasy of winning the black vote was pursued to the detriment of courting the very winnable white male vote. As a result, this was the demographic Trump went down with in comparison with 2016. It was actually the only demographic where he decreased.
- Hiring absolute morons and incompetents, which is a problem that has dogged Trump since 2016.
This time around, we see a complete turnaround on all 3 issues.
- Legal challenges are presented swiftly and effectively before Election Day.
- The courting of Elon Musk, the Joe Rogan podcast, and the garbage truck photo op are only the most recent of the very successful efforts to speak to the demographic that can put Trump over. There are many others, and that’s a major difference from 2020.
- The people who carry out the day-to-day operations for the campaign are very organized, disciplined, effective people. Trump told, for example, about how fast the garbage truck photo op was organized, with the truck being covered with the campaign signage in a very short period of time and everything being ready lightning fast.
People have such an intense reaction to Trump – both good and bad – that it’s impossible to find anybody interested in discussing this. So thanks for the question, I appreciate.
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