The Cannonball Rally Strategy

On 11/16/2016 I posted a Ricochet piece on how Trump might run his Administration. I watched the press conference and today I saw the Florida rally. It looks like I might have stumbled into something. Let me know if this resonates:

Writing about the War on Trump- Post Election, Pre Inaugural Phase has made my mind spin a few ways to put this into a mental model.

The attacks, like they were on Reagan and Bush, will be relentless and pretty much from at least three sides. The Media, The DNC and allies, and the #ProNevers, with funding from the usual globalist donors.

One thing that worked for Trump during the election was he comes at the problem from outside the normal political frame. He came at this like a start up against entrenched competitors.

You do not win with their tactics and you must attack the market in unexpected ways.

  • Folks here on Ricochet always want a President to be the Wonk in Chief or the Philosopher King. Most political junkies tend that way. Issues, details, seventeen and a half point plans.
  • The media wants a Super Pol, slick , can dance on both sides of an issue and can lie with deftness. Those they praise to the heavens.
  • Voters? They want someone either someone who cares about them, someone who might stop things or do a few things or someone who is better than the alternative. They choose on non verbal communication from the candidate.

So Trump went after the slice everyone had written off or ignored in a classic MEET THE LARGEST UNMET NEED marketing 101 analysis.  The numbers were there, but it required a different approach than consultant honey pot tv ad buys and run to the idiot mushy middle with intense pandering to minorities against the Professional Panderers Inc.

He did rallies. He went so old school the other side had no defense.

He did twitter and insult comedy. He went so new school the other side had no defense.

He won.

Now he has a start up getting funded and off the ground.  He has a DNC-Media onslaught underway.

A possible strategy he could do is to take not a presidential model , but a corporate one for his role in the Presidency.

I believe he will do a Lee Iacocca when he turned Chrysler around. He was goal setter and Salesman in Chief.

He was the face of the new Chrysler. He did commercials, he was the cheerleader, he testified to congress. He was Chrysler.

I expect Trump will turn the goals over to Pence, Ryan , McConnell, Giuliani and others, let Bannon keep the results on track and Priebus keep the people on track and Trump will handle the Image war with an offensive instead of defense.

Rallies. You Tube speeches. Wall Building contests, factory openings. Oil wells gushing. America coming back.

It’ll be Huge, folks.

If he gets trapped on the media defensive, we have seen that show before.

I am now convinced he intends to be the Lee Iacocca for America on the turnaround. He sets the goals, gets the people and then maintains shareholder (voter)  enthusiasm.

Let me know if you see it this way or differently.

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8 Responses to The Cannonball Rally Strategy

  1. BrentB67BrentB67 says:

    What is the is Ricochet place you speak of in your article?

    Is that where 70’s Democrats hang out?

  2. TKC1101TKC1101 says:

    Worse, it where the worshipers of breakfast sandwiches congregate.

  3. Xennady says:

    I don’t think Trump is going to get the chance to be a Lee Iacocca, because he’s going to need to be much more, or fail.

    It’s an old adage that if you strike at the king you must kill him.

    Trump not only struck at the king- or presumptive queen, rather- he’s striking at all the her retainers and hangers-on and all their lackeys, including the lickspittle sham of an opposition.

    My suspicion is that there is an active conspiracy to engineer the Russia nonsense into an impeachment, handing power back to the old guard.

    If so, than Trump either crushes this, or the country resumes its path to oblivion so desired by the Davoisie.

    • TKC1101TKC1101 says:

      If Trump did a Karl Rove- GW Bush say nothing strategy, you would be correct.

      However, if he keeps up the rallies and keeps fighting for his promises, impeachment requires a very hefty number of congressmen and senators to pull off. I would bet we would be in civil war before congress moved for impeachment. Notice his biggest enemies have nowhere to go if he keeps in power- McCain, Graham, Soros, Schumer.

      • Xennady says:

        I agree we’d be in a civil war or well on the way if Congress attempts impeachment.

        But my opinion of the present political class is so snake belly low that I suspect they’d either be fine with that- figuring it would be a fine way to make their opponents go away- or they’re too stupid to imagine that the lowly Trumpkins would do anything but shuffle off in despair if Trump was deposed.

        Having heard rather too many times opinions such as that the Washington elite should be stood up against a wall and shot, I have a ghastly fear that these fools would end up turning the country into a continent sized Yugoslavia lacking only foreign peacekeepers.

        That noted, I do not expect that Trump will imitate the astonishing incompetence of Bush 43.

        He has already displayed vastly better political talents, and I hope and expect that to continue.

  4. DevereauxDevereaux says:

    ” I have a ghastly fear that these fools would end up turning the country into a continent sized Yugoslavia lacking only foreign peacekeepers.”

    That’s a whole SD away from any real effect here. I am highly skeptical of any real probability of civil war or division of the country. Yes, there are real differences in regions, but those differences are now painted in more stark contrast, and it will be up to the politicians to find a way to meld them.

    And it can be done. The Founders did, even with something so onerous as slavery. Surely guys like Gowdy can find a way to take out the old, bring in new ideas – and new politicians.

    But there WILL be a general SOCIAL dislike for all the violence in “protesting”. And THAT might get ugly.

  5. Xennady says:

    “That’s a whole SD away from any real effect here.”

    I really hope you’re right. Really.

    I fear otherwise. We have a rather famously divided electorate, along with a political class that is renowned for its incompetence. If this was not the case, Trump would not even be president, as the national leadership would not have driven so many people away from them and would not have striven to impose such unpopular and unworkable policies- but I digress.

    If human societies were adept at recognizing incipient catastrophes we wouldn’t have so many. Examples of such failures and misjudgements are legion, as I’m sure you know.

    One of our worst problems is that people in the government who should know better don’t. They have proven to be astonishingly unable to recognize that the US has real problems of a sort they don’t want to solve, because they don’t lend themselves to their preferred solutions of moar globalism and the like.

    Hence, Trump, etc. If things go well, he will be able to thread the needle, and find a political solution acceptable enough to keep the country intact without disaster.

    But I do not take this as a given. I recall that the English government of Lord North was shocked to learn that they had a foreign war on their hands after Lexington and Concord, and few people expected the bloodbath of the Civil War, either.

    I don’t expect such a catastrophe- but I can rather easily imagine it. Perhaps too easily, I hope.

    • TKC1101TKC1101 says:

      I agree that the Never Rights are playing with fire. Lord North is a good example.

      Try mapping where the weapons are in the red /blue county map. If Trump is removed, it will NOT return to business as usual.