I didn't take the bait on Friday's vFriam when DaveW (as I remember) claimed that Donald J Trump was "a great communicator". (same as Reagan was credited by his fans and perhaps more reluctantly his detractors?)
I suppose Trump is very effective at one mode of transmission of his ugliest sentiments, which I find to be at best a very degenerate form of CO mmunication. Whatever skills he has for "reading a crowd" and reflecting back that which serves his purposes feels more like Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) than "communication". I believe it is duplicitous and divisive to claim he is "a great communicator" That implies both depth and breadth, that he is listening to a broad swath of the country and he is speaking to a broad swath. Perhaps by a twist of interpretation, you *can* claim that he has his finger on the pulse of those he whips into a seditious and insurrectional frenzy as well as those he cannot so instead whips into what has been called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS). His apparent ability to instigate TDS in virtually everyone (type A or type B) is somewhat unique... though authoritarian figures around the world have done it for millennia? One (DaveW?) could also argue his sublime ability to give clear direction/orders to his underlings (e.g. Michael Cohen, et al) without ever actually saying anything indictable. This is the stuff of Crime bosses, right? Very effective communicators within a very narrow (and useful to them) context. DaveW's assertion on Friday provided me the perspective and motivation to look a little deeper into the question of just what makes Trump's style of communication so dangerous. The previous post with the Politico article about Sedition vs Insurrection came to me from that unconsciously I think. - SteveS - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
