Trump is a lot of things, but he is not a stupid person. Nobody who achieves election to the presidency is stupid. Most people aren’t capable of doing that.
I'm not sure if stupid is the word. He is manipulative. is well aware of how gullible many people are and uses it to his advantage. He depends on the ignorance and base behavior of his acolytes and uses it to his advantage.
I don't know how smart or not Trump is. During his first presidential campaign a young man told me that, in his circle they say that no matter the topic of the conversation or discussion, Trump will throw a dead cat into the middle of it as a distraction. I was amazed, that's exactly what I had thought of him during the first season of The Apprentice.
Very cool. :) It's been a long while since I've watched it.
I remember being especially moved by a small scene with Scout and Atticus - - they are sitting on the house front porch and I believe she is sharing with him something that happened at school.
I only now noted your description under your question. And my other answer is, to me, a serious answer. Those two fictional characters are my favorite fictional characters. And I do think the two of them together would make a good team -- Finch's Caring and Law-and-Order Smarts, and Bunker's incredible-to-me People Smarts (she 'reads' people incredibly well and seems to always find their admirable qualities).
But, more to your question, I would have voted for Tulsi Gabbard in the other election. And I'm always open to voting for a Libertarian Party candidate.
But the Electoral College system mitigates against any candidate other than the Republican or Democratic nominee winning, so third party candidacies are basically pointless.
I get it, yeah. And I'll have to use some time to research on your assertion here. But I would think that if the two major USA parties have poor (to me, at least) candidates, which certainly happens for me, then there may be a chance that enough other people may agree with me. :)
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