{"id":38223,"date":"2017-04-21T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38223"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:25:13","slug":"trump-doesnt-actually-have-any-sort-of-coherent-large-scale-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/21\/trump-doesnt-actually-have-any-sort-of-coherent-large-scale-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump “doesn’t actually have<\/em> any sort of coherent large-scale vision”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Martin<\/a> discusses what really drives Donald Trump and why the media is so hard-pressed to pin him down:<\/p>\n

The confusion here is rooted in trying to figure out what Trump’s convictions are, what his foreign policy is. This inevitably goes astray, because Trump doesn’t actually have<\/em> any firm convictions, at least along those lines. He can be in favor of and against gun control; be against the government being involved in healthcare and in favor of a government single-payer system; be opposed to bombing Syria and okay with Tomahawk cruise missiles striking Syrian airbases\u2014because he doesn’t actually have<\/em> any sort of coherent large-scale vision or any particular ideals about the human condition.<\/p>\n

He’s a salesman. What he cares about is the Deal. He even says it outright: his autobiographical business book is called The Art of the Deal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you want to understand salesmen, the best start is to watch the famous “Always Be Closing” speech from Glengarry Glen Ross<\/em>.<\/p>\n