POL207Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: General Idea, Perfect Set
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Issues that donald trump raises have been ignored by bipartisan government officials for so long that it makes sense as to why he would make it this far. The general idea of the last couple elections is that mobilization is going to be beat convergence every time. The real issue is identifying and getting enthusiasm out of people who already support you. T(cid:396)u(cid:373)ps (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:396)ge(cid:374)(cid:272)e st(cid:396)ateg(cid:455) is (cid:373)o(cid:396)e a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat he does(cid:374)"t sa(cid:455), su(cid:272)h as ga(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:396)iage and abortions. Trump was under minded by his own weird narcissism during the debate. The fact that american constitutionalism is the major source of partisanalism dispute is a sign of the failure of the founding fathers. American politics is a game of basketball, and every game you have to spend 2 hours explaining the rules, where no one agrees what they are, and everyone starts fighting.
