{"id":87126,"date":"2024-05-04T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87126"},"modified":"2024-05-03T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:06:46","slug":"qotd-why-donald-trump-beat-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/04\/qotd-why-donald-trump-beat-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Why Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Eight years ago, with the American election reaching fever pitch, no one truly believed that Donald Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton. I certainly didn&#8217;t. But then the Clinton team decided to publish her playlist \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/43JJ50RsHoyUXj8eI8FaPQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rock out, Hillary 2016 style, with the official campaign playlist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I&#8217;m embarrassed just to <em>type<\/em> that). In one flash, I knew that Trump would win. Not because Clinton&#8217;s playlist was lame, obvious, safe, uninspiring &#8230; I&#8217;m not judging her taste in music, or lack thereof, nor would I count myself qualified to do so. I knew instantly she would lose because it was so clear that no one on earth would <em>ever<\/em> want to see her playlist. Let alone listen to it. No one on earth would want to know that such a playlist existed, much less care a raspberry fuck what was in it, what genre, what generation, what anything. For all the negative feelings I may have entertained concerning Trump&#8217;s personality, moral and ethical nature, honesty, decency etc., etc., I had to confess that I was fascinated to know what might be in <em>his<\/em> playlist. For all I knew, it could be polka music, soft rock, clawhammer bluegrass, death metal, light classical, Nu-folk, Tesco<sup>1<\/sup>, psychedelic funk, Tijuana brass. It didn&#8217;t matter. What mattered was that I was <em>interested<\/em>. And I knew with a certainty that might be regarded as deeply arrogant that my belief \u2013 that a Hillary Clinton playlist was among the least interesting ideas ever proposed \u2013 would be a belief shared by most people, whatever their political leanings. It&#8217;s not fair on Hillary Clinton that this should be the case, but the case is what it is. We smell it at once. Hillary Clinton&#8217;s playlist? No. Therefore, somehow, Hillary no.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics and group theory can take us a long way, but smell takes us further.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Fry, <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenfry.substack.com\/p\/the-one-and-the-many\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The One and the Many&#8221;, <em>The Fry Corner<\/em><\/a>, 2024-02-02.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<p><em>1. Tesco, as a branch of dance music, does, or at last briefly did, exist. It&#8217;s a blend of techno and disco. You knew that.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years ago, with the American election reaching fever pitch, no one truly believed that Donald Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton. I certainly didn&#8217;t. But then the Clinton team decided to publish her playlist \u2013 Rock out, Hillary 2016 style, with the official campaign playlist (I&#8217;m embarrassed just to type that). 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