Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
Jeez, everybody is all bent out of shape on this. The Republican establishment hate Trump nearly as much as they hate Clinton so with Republicans controlling The House and The Senate how much &quot;damage&quot; is President Trump going to be able to do.<p>The really interesting part of all this was reading Scott Adams blog who proposed the idea that Trump is a master persuader (probably this is just a fancy name for populist). He has been blogging about persuasion techniques and about cognitive biases and how humans are irrational creatures 90% of the time and are open to persuasion techniques.<p>This seems to offend everybodies sensibilities but for me it&#x27;s been fascinating and a real eye-opener. The reaction (bias?) in the media has been particularly interesting and has forever changed my world view.<p>If you have the time it&#x27;s probably worth reading the posts for the past year or so, <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dilbert.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.dilbert.com&#x2F;</a> It won&#x27;t be so interesting now that we know the result but the ideas and methods of persuasion he talks about will shape the future for a long time to come.<p>The cognitive dissonance being shown by the media is particularly funny. It&#x27;s amazing that they really don&#x27;t understand that a large percentage of the population voted for Trump because he probably represents for them a reasonable hope for change. I&#x27;m waiting for somebody to suggest that nobody actually voted for him and instead he rigged the election all by himself.