{"id":42164,"date":"2018-02-08T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42164"},"modified":"2018-02-07T23:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T04:03:49","slug":"dilberts-scott-adams-explains-how-he-knew-trump-would-win-bigly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/08\/dilberts-scott-adams-explains-how-he-knew-trump-would-win-bigly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert&#8217;s Scott Adams Explains How He Knew Trump Would &#8216;Win Bigly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5MQHtPiCXUc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 7 Feb 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cartoonist-turned-political-prognisticator talks about Trump, &#8220;master persuaders,&#8221; and winning arguments in a &#8220;world where facts don&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Scott Adams, the cartoonist behind the massively popular comic strip <em>Dilbert<\/em>, boldly predicted that Donald Trump would win the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason I can see it coming is because I have studied this field of persuasion,&#8221; says Adams. &#8220;I saw this Trump character and he had the full tool set.&#8221; The 60-year-old Bay Area resident doesn&#8217;t agree with Trump on many political issues, but his prediction was enough for his to receive death threats from embittered Hillary Clinton supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Adam&#8217;s new book, <em>Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don&#8217;t Matter<\/em>, is both a detailed analysis of how Trump reframed political rhetoric during the 2016 campaign and a guide to how all of us can communicate more effectively and persuasively.<\/p>\n<p>Adams sat down with <em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s Nick Gillespie in front of a live audience in San Francisco to talk about his book, his &#8220;extreme liberal&#8221; views, the popularity of his live broadcasts with followers via Twitter, and why Trump is a &#8220;master persuader.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cameras by Zach Weismueller, Paul Detrick, and Justin Monticello. 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