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<p class="MsoNormal">Caitlin’s observation about the velvet ropes captures it perfectly IMO.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Frank Wimberly<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 10, 2021 10:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Great Communicator or NLP unto TDS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Trump speaks at a junior high level ("fantastic", "disgusting") and repeats every phase two or three times. Obama was a great communicator. The effectiveness of the two styles depends on the audience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Frank C. Wimberly<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 10:57 AM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I didn't take the bait on Friday's vFriam when DaveW (as I remember)<br>
claimed that Donald J Trump was "a great communicator". (same as<br>
Reagan was credited by his fans and perhaps more reluctantly his<br>
detractors?)<br>
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I suppose Trump is very effective at one mode of transmission of his<br>
ugliest sentiments, which I find to be at best a very degenerate form of<br>
CO mmunication.<br>
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Whatever skills he has for "reading a crowd" and reflecting back that<br>
which serves his purposes feels more like Neurolinguistic Programming<br>
(NLP) than "communication".<br>
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I believe it is duplicitous and divisive to claim he is "a great<br>
communicator" That implies both depth and breadth, that he is listening<br>
to a broad swath of the country and he is speaking to a broad swath. <br>
Perhaps by a twist of interpretation, you *can* claim that he has his<br>
finger on the pulse of those he whips into a seditious and<br>
insurrectional frenzy as well as those he cannot so instead whips into<br>
what has been called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS). His apparent<br>
ability to instigate TDS in virtually everyone (type A or type B) is<br>
somewhat unique... though authoritarian figures around the world have<br>
done it for millennia? <br>
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One (DaveW?) could also argue his sublime ability to give clear<br>
direction/orders to his underlings (e.g. Michael Cohen, et al) without<br>
ever actually saying anything indictable. This is the stuff of Crime<br>
bosses, right? Very effective communicators within a very narrow (and<br>
useful to them) context.<br>
<br>
DaveW's assertion on Friday provided me the perspective and motivation<br>
to look a little deeper into the question of just what makes Trump's<br>
style of communication so dangerous. The previous post with the<br>
Politico article about Sedition vs Insurrection came to me from that<br>
unconsciously I think.<br>
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