https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
-- rec -- On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:23 PM Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Marcus - > > Thanks for that deep dive into the (lack of) structure of Trump's > bombast. I'm not sure that the 39% (number varies) of his base are simply > deplorable breadth-never parsers, though it would seem they would have to > be to not trip over his rhetoric. Some (maybe even members of this list?) > may support him as "the Great Disruptor" while seeing entirely through his > very poorly crafted rhetoric? > > More importantly to me, is the effect it has on the larger population, on > the norms and expectations of voters/citizens and other political > operators. I'd like to think of Trump as one big fat ugly dose of > live-vaccine which has put the country into a harsh reaction which will > ultimately leave it with some immunity to his particular style of > whackadoodlery. On the other hand, we may sustain systemic damage that > leaves this country lamed until our eventual and inevitable demise (as a > country/culture/???). > > - Steve > > PS does anyone know what this rough 39% figure is *of*? Is it 39% of > citizens, eligible voters, voters in the last election, poll > subjects(whose?)? I'm not even sure where I get the number, it seems to > be the most common number thrown around in many situations.... Sometimes > it is a round 40% and I think sometimes more like 37%... but it doesn't > seem to have varied much for quite a while. Seems like it may be more > apocryphal than real? > > > On 1/9/19 12:49 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Steve writes: > > < I think this is the "genius" of Trump's campaign and tenure... he > operates from his own (and often ad-hoc) Lexicon and that reported 39% > stable base of his seems happy to just rewrite their own dictionary to > match his. It has been noted that Trump's presidency has been most > significant for helping us understand how much of our government operates > on norms and a shared vocabulary. He de(re?)constructs those with > virtually every tweet. > > > Deconstructing a complex predicate involves taking out sub-predicates and > sub-sub predicates and examining all of the facts that cause each predicate > to hold or not. Trump’s `leadership’ involves ripping out the top level > predicates and simply defining sub-predicates to hold or not depending on > his impulses at that minute of the day. Yes, it is his correct > recognition that humans, especially the deplorables, aren’t very good with > depth first search. He’s got a depth cutoff of about 1, as do they. > > Marcus > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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